Word: instrument
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...excellent taste in choosing Bobby Byrne's orchestra for the brawl on May 23. This band is one of those rare groups which can play swing and sweet equally well. Besides, Bobby himself is one of the best white jazz trombonists in the game, and his technique on that instrument ranks with that of Jack Teagarden and Tommy Dorsey. Vocalist Dorothy Claire you've heard to good advantage with Glenn Miller. You'll see her to better advantage at the Jubilee...
...contain portable hot-water radiators run by electricity, as well as small electric stoves. When time comes to move, everything folds up: the 350 iron cots with rope bottoms, the well-equipped doctors' offices, the dentist's office, the operating room, with its sterilization units, operating tables, instrument cases. Like a circus on the march, the hospital rolls off down the highway with its staff of 60 nurses, eleven doctors, one dentist, two druggists, 95 general workers...
...case of Poland . . . Norway . . . France and Belgium . . . Britain again tried to involve Germany in the struggle in which Britain hoped that she would finish off the German people once and for all. . . . In a few weeks the German soldiers on the Eastern Front, Poland, swept aside this instrument of British policy...
...increase their output. Supplies are suddenly cut down (regardless of the amount stored) to scare the population into believing the situation serious, or extra rations are suddenly granted to boost morale in a bad time. Food statistics are guarded like bomber planes. To the Nazis, food is "a beautiful instrument . . . for maneuvering and disciplining the masses...
...Hollywood, the birthplace of so many other cultural miscarriages. Therefore, you too, will know where to lay the blame if you think a jam session is something bordering on a Bacchanalian orgy, complete with Goldwyn girls, Martha Raye and her face, and Artie Shaw tooting on his instrument. That's all very well and good, but it's far from the right idea...