Word: beating
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...That You Know" (Brunswick). It was the first record they made, and as a matter of fact, was their first band effort. This record was not only stiff, it suffered from rigor mortis, and here's why: everybody in the band, particularly drummerman Krupa, was playing ahead of the beat. As you play the notes of a melody, it sets up a four-four tempo. Krupa was depending on the ear of the listener, used to hearing four-four tempos from marches and other dance tunes, to remember that tempo; then from the very beginning of the record, the band...
...kill from their dispatches only information of a military nature. Matters political would not be touched. Last week tall, lanky Claud Cockburn, clever and daring editor of London's famed newsheet The Week, who because of his close Communist associations has pulled many a sensational political news beat, cabled to The Week's U. S. edition, now mimeographed in Manhattan, that the "Herren Censoren," as he called the British copy-passers, had cracked down on two of his high-powered, nonmilitary, highly political pieces. For some reason known only to the censors, Claud Cockburn's cable naming...
...Johann himself did not slip, was soon turning out waltzes to beat the band. At the peak of his career he visited the U. S., conducted one gigantic concert with a chorus of 20,000 and 100 assistant conductors, was so frightened by the experience that he scurried back to Vienna for good. Seventeen years later, in 1889, a new popular musical movement had begun to sweep Johann and his waltzes into history. It came from the U. S. and it was in 4/4, not ¾, time. The Waltz Kings were succeeded by a March King: John Philip Sousa...
...Crimson quintet beat the Huskies last year, but the visitors will hold a decided advantage in experience this evening. Captain Bob Gurney at forward, Tom Gleason at center, and Bob Toucey at guard have been playing on the same team since they were Freshmen three years...
Alexander R. Bright '19 talked informally at the get-together in Winthrop House, giving suggestions for pre-season conditioning. "You can beat Dartmouth this winter by getting those legs in shape for the bumps of the trails, and Harvard has a good chance this year to break the long string of Dartmouth victories...