Word: groanings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Perhaps I am getting behind in my knowledge of slang, but where did you get the name "juke box" for nickel phonographs in your article about Glenn Miller? (TIME, Nov. 27). In Michigan, Indiana and Ohio, everyone calls them "Groan Boxes" and the expression, "Flip a nickel in the groan," is generally understood...
Director Hanson, who raised his goatee when he was studying in Rome because he thought young musicians attracted too little attention, still defends the young U. S. composer with crotchety vigor. No modernist himself, he personally dislikes the dissonant groanings and thumpings of the musical Kulturbolschewiki. But he will defend to the death their right to groan and thump...
...object to this un-American, Fascistic, unDemocratic, un D.A.R. step which Bourbon pettifoggery is cramming down the Freshman throats. We urge students not to submit; we ask one universal groan to rise spontaneously in the next lecture. That there were only two A's at midyears in this year's History I class may cut into future Phi Beta Kappites, but it is no reason to justify swastikas in the Yard. Committee to View Liberal Democracy M. B. Roger '69, Chairman...
...sleepy hamlet where he was born, Vag learned to love trains. The whole atmosphere of the town was railroadish. It was a division point on a large system, and the train-smell and train-noise filled the air constantly. Petit Vag used to watch the heavy freights groan out of the yards, shout defiance to nature and the elements, and attack the mountain grades--and many times his heart rode the cowcatcher of a mighty 16-driver Mallet engine, or nestled in the cupola of a caboose. Every night at 8.30 he lay in his bed and slept not until...
...hospital. There, for hours, the shocked mother and the wife (three months with child) faced the alternative of their man's death from a severed spinal cord and ruptured spine, or his recovery with life-long paralysis. Scooped, the Examiner's editors could only groan as the first editions of the Chronicle screamed the ill-fated stunt through San Francisco with a five-column front-page picture...