Word: huntting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...exception of Murray McEachern, trombone-sax man recently acquired from Benny Goodman, the band doesn't play much swing. But it does play a great deal of the ensemble work that made it famous as a dance outfit and for excellent commercial. Catch Louis Armstrong's duet with PeeWee Hunt for the difference between someone that phrases and one that just sings . . . Also heard the Victor Herbert album, and while it isn't swing, it is swell melodic stuff--recorded perfectly and done in admirable taste--and is a relief from tunes like "Three Little Fishies"--for which Harvard...
...their town house in London, Meraud and her sister, Tanis, entertained with songs & sketches. They and their innumerable cousins of the rich and fecund Guinness family (brewing) were chief among the Bright Young People whom Evelyn Waugh parodied in Vile Bodies. One of their inventions was the Treasure Hunt-a fad which began by perturbing nocturnal London, traveled to the high schools of the Far West, became the Scavenger Hunt and returned to Paris via the cinema (TIME, March...
...publicity has been given to the talent hunt, and the film company is said not to want a swarm of applicants for the jobs, having definite ideas in advance of the type of college graduate wanted...
...following members of the faculty received grants from the Fund: Willie Apel, George H. Chase, Henry Chauncey, Henry A. Christian, William Dameshok, Dana B. Durand. Ralph E. Fadum. Know, B. Finley, Alden B. Greuinger, Frederick V. Hunt, Perry G. F. Miller, Samuel E. Morison. Arthur E. Norton, Ralph B. Perry, John Reek Reinheld Rudenberg, Karl Sax, Theodore E. Sterne, Theodore J. B. Stier, Paul A. Vesisl, Robert W. Vose, Ralph H. Wetmore, and George E. Wistocki...
...this year Dae, the livest radio character in France, is starting a variation of the treasure-hunt idea, in which he drops token coins in hiding places around Paris, directs listeners to them somewhat as Uncle Don tells U. S. youngsters where the family has hidden their birthday presents...