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Word: bee (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Brown. Very fine playing, although a few of Leopold's ideas are lifted from Browns solo . . . Bobby Byrn's band is coming along in great shape. The twenty year old refugee from Jimmy Dorsey's outfit is turning out a steady series of good tune expositions, "Busy as a Bee" being" being his newest. Decca released his "Easy Does It" last week, and although it wasn't as bouncy as the Tommy Dorsey version of the same, it was still good...

Author: By Michael Levin, | Title: SWING | 3/15/1940 | See Source »

McArthur's first big chance came in 1935, when Diva Kirsten Flagstad was looking around for an accompanist. He wrote her a letter, got an audition, was soon touring the world playing at her concerts. Meanwhile he had taken another bee into his bonnet. Between concerts he was hard at work in his hotel rooms studying scores, practicing how to beat time. Two years ago in Sydney, Australia, McArthur persuaded Flagstad to let him try his hand at conducting while she sang. He carried out the job like a veteran, and the Sydney critics gave him top marks. After...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: U. S. Conductor | 2/26/1940 | See Source »

...rough-cut, reverent set of lyrics, they skimmed the Lincoln legend from hollow-log cradle to resurrection, not missing the Lincoln-Douglas debate, in which Abe's words "flashed home like singing bullets, Steve's jumped fence like frisky pullets." Liveliest lines: on an apocryphal schoolroom spelling bee in which Abe Lincoln and his sweetheart Ann Rutledge headed opposing teams. The spelldown...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Spelldown | 2/19/1940 | See Source »

...others believe it a sign of emotional conflict. The most widely held theory considers arthritis the result of a streptococcus infection. Since they have not understood its cause, doctors have blindly tried all kinds of treatment, ranging from tooth pulling (to remove a focus of infection), to injections of bee venom (to combat the allergy). But cures are few and far between...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Gold for Arthritis NEED ISSUE | 1/8/1940 | See Source »

...were bagged just three years ago almost to a day, a new flock of Blackbirds, with a winning streak of 42, will meet Southern California, year in & year out one of the most formidable basketball teams in the country. If they can outshoot Sam Barry's Trojans, Clair Bee's boys will earn their reputation as a college basketball team second to none...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Bee's Blackbirds | 1/1/1940 | See Source »

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