Word: bandwagons
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...this quest for a brief three minutes of entertainment, there are fortunately a few names which rarely disappoint. Everyone raves about Duke Ellington, and his bandwagon is one on which I have long been riding. Duke has abandoned the overwrought orchestrations he was writing a few years ago, and has reverted to arrangements more in the jazz idiom, with wider opportunities for his soloists. Last week he turned out Five O'clock Drag and Clementine, two original riff numbers arranged in the Ellington tradition of unexpected effects and frequent dissonance's, particularly in the brass section. Clementine...
...rush to the Harvard bandwagon has been terrific. Last Saturday caused more split-second somersaults than have been seen since last June when Hitler walked into Russia. The number one example of this is David Francis Egan '23, whose acid comments about the state of Harvard football during the era of Gladchuck and O'Rourke, were not meant for publication in the Alumni Bulletin. Following the Dartmouth victory Egan started his flip-flop, and after the Navy deadlock he reached down into his asbestos-lined dictionary to pull out words and phrases not used since B.C.'s adventures with Georgetown...
...this should provide a steadying thought to the giddy multitude who have rushed for the Harvard bandwagon since the Crimson celebrated Dick Harlow's birthday a day ahead of time by dashing the hopes of Dartmouth. The Indians, according to reports emenating from Hanover, were just getting in the proper frame of mind to receive a Bowl...
Word is expected from the Yale Lit and the Yale Record tomorrow, as Yale boys are always happy to jump on any bandwagon...
...easily pass an amendment permitting the arming of merchant ships; that an amendment to permit U.S. ships to enter so-called combat zones would be hard-fought; that isolationist mail had slumped since the President's "shoot-on-sight" speech; that Congressional isolationists were climbing on the Administration bandwagon. The strategists decided to revert to the old tactic of stirring up the letter writers of the U.S., to flood the mails and wires with threats and complaints to Congress and the President...