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ISBN 978-0-595-19331-8. Porter wasn't the only composer writing about cocaine in 1934. Huddie Ledbetter wrote a drug song called Take a Whiff On Me. "I'se got a nickel, you'se got a dime. You buy the coke and I'll buy the wine. Cocaine's for horses and not for men.
21.7 take something off the pitch. 21.8 take the bat out of his hands. ... 24.16 whiff. 24.17 whiffout. 24.18 whip. 24.19 whitewash. 24.20 wild card. 24.21 wild in ...
The first part of the golf swing. The back-swing starts with the club-head immediately behind the ball and ends when the club head travels back behind the player's head. The term take-away refers to the first part of the back-swing. Bag Ball A small sphere used in playing golf, which is intended to be struck by a player swinging a club.
The Yale Whiffenpoofs is a collegiate a cappella singing group at Yale University. Established in 1909, it is the oldest such group in the United States. Best known for "The Whiffenpoof Song", [ 1] the group is composed of 14 senior students who compete for admission in the spring of their junior year. [ 2] Former members include Cole Porter ...
Just take a whiff from the funk wafting from a grungy couch or the stink coming out of a cluttered closet, if you don't think it's true. Thankfully, the sloppiest of bachelors can change his ways ...
The following is a partial list of songs performed by Lead Belly. Lead Belly, born Huddie Ledbetter, was an American folk and blues musician active in the 1930s and 1940s. "4, 5 & 9". "Abraham Lincoln". "Ain't Goin Down the Well No More". "Ain't Gonna Drink No More". " Ain't Gonna Study War No More. "Ain't It a Shame to Go Fishin' on a Sunday" [ 1]
In general usage, the word "whiff" may refer to the movement or sound of air or wind, perhaps as an object moves through it. In baseball a whiff is when a batter swings and misses a pitch. Such usage in baseball is attributed by the OED to 1913. Perhaps derived from this, the term "whiff" has also come to mean trying and failing at something.
Variants on the Lead Belly version have been recorded by Blind Jesse Harris (1937), Woody Guthrie, Roy Bookbinder, Merle Travis, The Byrds (1970), Mungo Jerry (as "Have a Whiff on Me", 1971 single), Old Crow Medicine Show ("Cocaine Habit" from their 2006 album Big Iron World), The White Stripes, Abner Jay, and others. [17] "Take a Drink on Me"