Then she only goes and kicks me right in me cobblers, don’t she!

Well, during the strike Clarence Drum comes pee-rading up to our table, all dolled up fit to kill in his nice lil cap'n's uniform, and somebody says to him, 'Busting the strike, Clarence?'

While Ellington voiced praise and respect for Benny Goodman and some white bandleaders, he gently chastised others for profiting from “musical-simplification to the 'nth' degree” and “reach[ing] a pleasing musical middle.”

This is in line with what we know of Carpenter’s political attitudes, which on balance veer towards a kind of post-60s left-libertarianism.