Word: halled
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...another quirk of fate, Franklin Roosevelt's brother-in-law, Gracie Hall Roosevelt, father of last week's White House debutante (see p. 17), was chosen by Mayor Frank Murphy to be his comptroller...
Another: while jazz comes to the jitterbug hot off the griddle, spirituals are dished out to concertgoers like musical cold meat. By the time they reach the concert hall most spirituals have been written down on paper, dressed up like hymn tunes, adorned with fancy piano accompaniments, "interpreted" according to the best rules of high-brow music. But in the whitewashed rural churches of the deep South, their spiritual home, spirituals are as hot as hot jazz, and often sound like...
People in big cities seldom get a chance to hear such authentic hot spirituals. But last week at a Carnegie Hall concert of Negro music sponsored by the leftist New Masses, 2,600 Manhattanites heard some pretty warm ones. Entitled "From Spirituals to Swing," the New Masses concert set out to demonstrate the evolution of Negro music from the African jungle to the boogie-woogie. This it did not quite do. The boogie-woogie (played by Meade "Lux" Lewis and others) was fairly well in the groove but the jungle music (represented by African phonograph recordings) sounded as irrelevant...
...pine forests out of Grieg's nostrils. His music, delicately flavored with the weedy condiments of Norwegian folk song, soon won him world fame. By the time he was 60 even the Central Europeans admitted he was good, placed a bust of him in the famous Gewandhaus hall of fame in Leipzig. Even the concert-shy man-in-the-street knew and whistled melodies from Grieg's Peer Gynt Suite...
Attacked from behind and knocked down on the steps of the City Hall by a discharged WPAster suffering from delusions of persecution, New York's scrappy little Mayor Fiorello LaGuardia grabbed his assailant's legs, got them in a scissors hold before police came to the rescue. The fracas over, he remarked: "That's nothing to some of the blows I've taken under the belt. ... It was fortunate for him that I was not facing...