Word: fad
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...point in the current craze among dance bands to make swing versions of popular classics is reached in the adaptation by Larry Clinton of Debussy's "Reverie." So perfect a fusion of so-called classic and modern elements has been made in this piece that as far as the fad is concerned, here is an apologia pro sua vita. The swing version of "Reverie" is superior to the original, because Debussy's composition was not in his best vein. "Reverie" dates from 1890, the year marking the transition from the composer's immature to more mature works. That year, which...
Sirs: Your facility in answering (TIME, Sept. 19) H. A. Washington's query concerning the Communists' use of "pantywaist," prompts me to ask for similar information concerning another term that seems to have become a fad among political commentators, namely...
Lambeth Palace, in the southeast part of London, is one of the official residences of the Archbishop of Canterbury. Not from this pile but from the narrow, grubby street nearby came the name of England's present dance fad, the greatest in years-the Lambeth Walk. A number in a successful musicomedy, Me and My Girl, which opened last winter, the Lambeth Walk by last week was being played to a frazzle on the radio, whistled to death in the streets, performed every fourth dance in London hotels and clubs. The dance-an easy, arm-in-arm walk, mock...
...craze for de luxe "camping" on the beach is this season's big fad on the once-again-prosperous French Riviera. One hotel leased an entire island, which it promptly covered with tents. Another, at fashionable Cap d'Antibes. has put up tents in its gardens, erected a string of midget-sized bungalows on its beach. Despite the spacious comfortable hotel rooms only a few yards away, diplomats, statesmen, cinema celebrities have preferred to live like beachcombers in abodes which for the most part lack plumbing, hot water, screens...
...thumping the keys at Tony Pastor's 14th-Street Variety Theatre while a tiny Negro named Strap Heel danced the buck-and-wing. At the time Harney's violently syncopated pianism, which according to contemporaries "could be heard for blocks around," was regarded as a passing fad. But it caught on so rapidly that by 1897 Harney was encouraged to publish his Rag-Time Instructor, first pedagogical treatise on the art of ragtime, now a collector's item...