Word: flubdub
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...balding Tommy Dorsey, 41, knocked the clarinet's balding Benny Goodman, 38, through the music stands. When Goodman arrived late on the job and tootled tootles that weren't in the script, Dorsey got his dander up. The standard Hollywood windmilling followed -and then the standard flubdub to the press. Goodman: "I was just sitting there playing my clarinet when I got hit." Dorsey: "I couldn't punch my way out of a paper...
...down when a radio mike was set before him at a Washington press conference. He put the mike on the floor and his foot on the mike (see cut). His explanation: "I can't talk freely if this is to be broadcast." Mutual broadcast some of the muffled flubdub anyway, presented it as "what Henry Wallace sounds like talking out of his left foot...