Word: bande
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Guess I'll Go Back Home (Glenn Miller; Bluebird). Able new band of able old trombonist plays Willard Robison's (Old Folks) newest nostalgia...
...song writer of some popularity, made up Boomps-a-Daisy, donned a gown with a bustle and, with a partner, began demonstrating the dance a month ago. It was featured in London dance halls, in provincial ice shows. This week Boomps-a-Daisy went into the big time when Band Leader Jack Hylton opened a ten-week revue at London's Palladium, had an Edwardian-costumed chorus perform the dance, invited the audience to join in in the aisles. Boomps-a-Daisy goes as follows: face partner, tap hands; clap hands to knees; "with great delicacy and discretion," boomp...
...Last week Band Leader Vincent Lopez announced that he had discovered Alaska's first swing song, The Ice-Worm Wiggle, or Akh-Tu-Wu-Ye-Keh, Cheechako ("Welcome Stranger"). The piece begins: See the sneaking, peeping ice worms wiggle. Its chorus...
...material would no longer be mandatory. The President would have broad discretion to regulate U. S. exports, travel by U. S. citizens, dealing in combatants' securities, etc., etc. Passage of the Bloom bill by the House would mean little, even in diluted form. In the Senate a band of 21 isolationists led by Idaho's Borah and North Dakota's Nye promised to fight this Roosevelt brand of Neutrality all summer if necessary...
...neighboring Gdynia, President Greiser, conveniently a lieutenant in the German Navy, invited a naval delegation from East Prussia to dedicate a Danzig monument to German sailors lost in the World War. The delegation, including the Reich's Rear Admiral Fleischer and a company of marines with a brass band, arrived in Danzig last Sunday. There were speeches and a parade, all surprisingly nonbelligerent. The Poles ignored the move, and sly Danzig Nazis reasoned that if they could get away with one "foreign" naval detachment in the Free City, they might get away with more...