Word: drives
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Decca records, having lost Jimmy Lunceford, goes out and digs up a band by the name of Floyd Ray that not only plays like Lunceford, but shows possibilities of becoming much better . . . For drumming with all of Krupa's speed and flash but with taste and drive, listen to Cozy Cole on Callaway's "Ratamacue" (Vocalion) . . . Not swing, but still very funny is the Commodore release of "Private Jives," a parody on Noel Coward's "Private Lives" . . . Word also slips 'round that Vocalion has succumbed to the album craze, turning out a collection of old Fletcher Henderson platters...
...made his views clear at a press conference shortly after renewing his demand that Congress appropriate an additional $150,000,000 for relief or assume full responsibility for hardships to 5,000,000 W.P.A. workers and their dependents resulting from the current economy drive...
...this has a very definite moral. If Dartmouth--or Harvard--wishes to continue local reform at the expense of public relations, the chances of a successful drive should be carefully weighed. For it is absurd to create town-gown enmity without some sort of return for the sacrifice. So far it has been all sacrifice for Harvard this winter, as Plan E lies in the graveyard and town animosity has reached an all time high. The spectacle is sad; but, if it serves as an example and warning to Dartmouth, Harvard's suffering has not been entirely in vain...
When the race was over, 21,000 astonished fans realized that thoroughbreds are thoroughly unpredictable. The mighty Stagehand, a notoriously slow starter, lacked the stretch-running drive to overtake the leaders this time, finished three lengths behind speedy Bull Lea and a half length behind Marshall Field's Sir Damion...
...Elis put on a determined drive in the third quarter, reducing a six point Crimson lead at the beginning of the period to two points at the end. In the last quarter, the Yale team slumped, and the Yardlings built up a ten point lead...