Word: jigged
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...wall beyond him is not an entirely new sensation (c.f. Dracula looking into a mirror and seeing nothing); but it is none the less grotesque and even somewhat amusing. The producers of "The Invisible Man" have not taken their creation too seriously, and so they have him do a jig down a country road with nothing but his trousers and an hysterically fugitive old woman to indicate his presence...
...felt successful enough to seek his fortune in the wilds of Manhattan's Greenwich Village. He became Max Eastman's assistant editor on the Masses, was a member of the committee that started the bohemian revels in Webster Hall, wrote plays for his friend George Cram ("Jig") Cook's Provincetown Players. In 1917, with the rest of the Masses board, he was tried for conspiracy; the jury disagreed. Next year, having changed his mind about Germany, Dell allowed himself to be drafted and sent to camp at Spartanburg, but since he was still under indictment under...
...Disney (whose income already amounts to $400,000 a year) will share the profits. But Disney will give half his share to his staff composer and conductor, Frank Churchill, a tall shy Rumford, Me., native who is responsible for all the tunes that Mickey Mouse and the Disney animals jig to. Disney gives him a story in terms of line drawings and film frames. Churchill works out a score which must have a definite number of beats for each of the frames so that the sound-track will synchronize perfectly with the movies, which the chances are he never...
Just before he boarded Vincent Astor's Nourmahal to go fishing last week President Roosevelt appointed a Planning & Coordination Committee for the oil industry. It was the last big jig in the Government's design for oil's recovery. Congress had granted the President power to regulate oil shipped in interstate commerce. Oilmen had signed a code. Secretary of Interior Ickes had been named oil administrator. To oilmen most important of all was the P. C. C. Its 15 members would settle the key question of price-fixing. Checking off the appointees last week, oilmen soon...
...ponderable theme in Pigeons and People is the old one used by Playwright Cohan of yore, that the sane are insane and the insane sane. Beyond that Cohan comes out flatly in favor of "straightaway" thinking. Cohan theatre, Cohan jauntiness make what promises more into a dialectic jig and a first-rate farce...