Word: draggings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...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 is not the "Oh My Darling" ditty, but just another Ellington vehicle by his arranger, Billy Strayhorn. On both sides Ben Webster and Rex Stewart are presented with...
...Your fantastic Rumanian story, hysterical tone of your recent cables and other vagaries indicate you, along with Knickerbocker, Mowrer and others, are victims of mass psychosis and are hysterically trying to drag U.S. into war. Suggest you join Foreign Legion or else take rest cure in sanitarium in neutral country until you regain control of nerves and recover confidence in yourself. Until then, file no more...
Unfortunately the adapters drag in a plot which, besides being hokum, is a nuisance: it clutters up the play with a lot of grownups...
Both affairs will be held in the Union. Freshmen can escort their girls for supper before the record dance. The price of the dance is 40 cents "stag or drag." Although the committee has planned some activities for the week before the Christmas dinner, they were not disclosed. Whether Charles Townoend Copeland '32 will give his annual reading is not known...
...dream ship is an entirely new type of airplane: a tailless, two-engined flying wing. The idea itself is not new. Long have designers known that the tail of an airplane, necessary as it always has been for rudders, elevators, leverage, is a drag on a plane's speed. So Jack Northrop started on a new design 18 years...