Search Details

Word: donning (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first (reverse)


Usage:

First of all, none of the words used in the song . . . were intended to have any particular meaning. Last October, Jerry Brandow and Larry Kent, two comedian-dancers, played a "lick" for me to which the words "Hold-tight, hold-tight, hold-tight, hold-tight -want some seafood mama ! Shrimpers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, May 15, 1939 | 5/15/1939 | See Source »

Soon after, the song reached its stride, and with it came complaints from Si Oliver, arranger for Jimmy Lunceford, who claimed it came from his arrangement of Dear Old Southland, from Gene Krupa who said he made it up in one of his earlier Brunswick records, from Count Basic who...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, May 15, 1939 | 5/15/1939 | See Source »

> Justices of the U. S. Supreme Court do not, by tradition, hobnob with the President of the U. S. William Orville ("Bill") Douglas is different. He is only 40; had never been any kind of judge; until only six weeks ago, when Franklin Roosevelt elevated him, he was chairman of...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: Wonderful Turnout | 5/15/1939 | See Source »

The boogie-woogie piano wizardry of Albert Ammons, who first tickled the Harvard swing palate at the Freshman Smoker, will be featured during intermissions at the Leverett House Spring Formal tonight, Evans Speer '40, chairman of the committee announced. Don Redman will make his Harvard debut, providing music from 10...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: BUNNIES DANCE TONIGHT | 5/12/1939 | See Source »

Jeanette MacDonalds "Broadway Serenade," receiving the dubious honor of top-billing, is singularly devoid of all the elements that make a good musical. The plot, alone, places the cast in a hopeless situation, an obstacle they don't even try to surmount. For the climax, there is a dizzy succession...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Moviegoer | 5/11/1939 | See Source »

Previous | 60 | 61 | 62 | 63 | 64 | 65 | 66 | 67 | 68 | 69 | 70 | 71 | 72 | 73 | 74 | 75 | 76 | 77 | 78 | 79 | 80 | Next