Word: good
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...that is the case. Of course there is always the tenth girl who just happened to meet the right fellow, and now has three maids and even takes in the opera! This case is rare, however, and the townie usually goes back to the local boy who really made good...
...look--chumps!--We've got you figured out. Why not try to make a good name for Harvard rather than a bad name for other Cambridge girls besides? Disillusioned...
Larry Clinton and his Dipsy Doodlers played a one nighter at the Roseland Tuesday. All that can be done about it is to wave one leg feebly in the air and pray that the invasion won't come again. If there is one thing that can arouse good musicians from their usual torpor, it is the mention of Mr. Clinton's name, the reason being that he is the most unadulterated copyist extant. He was put where he is because a high executive of a record company had him under personal contract and spared no pains to see that...
...stuff like this will lead the listening audience to become very tired of something they have been told was swing, and therefore to condemn it. "Swing is a verb, not a noun." You can play things in swing, but there is no such thing as a swing tune. Without good, sincere swing men in the band, unhampered by stiff, copied arrangements, swing is an impossibility. And what Mr. Clinton doesn't copy, nobody else would play. By the way, take a look at Jelly Roll Morton's record of "Kansas City Stomp" and "Georgia Stomp" if you wish to hear...
...King of Chinatown" is passable but leaves one more convinced than ever that a good feature picture demands no double bill. It is a step down from Miss Colbert to Auna May Wong, and it washes the good taste from one's mouth...