Word: jigging
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Hitler couldn't have been compressed into enough arsenic to furnish a murder mystery. The Congress tried in its own way to keep its head on straight. Franklin Roosevelt had taken the "silly, foolish dollar sign" off aid-to-Britain. Congress put the dollar sign back on in jig-time, and tried vainly to add on a few cent-marks...
...victory for China. What has kept the Communists fighting for Chiang is the fact that they fear Japan more than they fear Chiang Kaishek. If Japan (or Russia) could convince the Communists that they have less to fear from Japan (or Russia) than from Chiang Kaishek, China's jig would...
...Find Out (R. K. O. Radio). Bandmaster Kay Kyser, who sells Lucky Strike cigarets on a weekly radio hour called Kay Kyser's Kollege of Musical Knowledge, wows his audience with a white cap & gown, a bouncing, frenzied jig he performs in front of the orchestra, an irresistible flow of puns, sly glances at his audience to let them know they are in on the horseplay. His slogan, "Yet's dance, chillun, yet's dance," is the signal for his equally rambunctious musicians to don unbecoming hats and wigs, toot their instruments in a spirit of buffoonery...
Such a wealth of singing, dancing and miscellaneous gyrations is now sweeping over the boards in "All In Fun" that Leonard Sillman faces a Herculean jig saw puzzle to fit the pieces into a unified show. Bill Robinson dances and the more you see the more you want. Jerry Lester, who far outdistances Phil Baker as the gag-man of the show, laughs, screams, whistles and ties himself into knots. Imogene Coca is superb in any kind of dance you can think of. And then there is Hope Manning, Red Marshall, Candido, Bothello, Bill Johnson...
...time-honored tradition of Congress is: "never do today what you can put off till tomorrow." Even the most earnest Congressional freshman learns in jig-time that almost nothing in a democracy is actually urgent business.* Many a Congressional oldster has become a solid statesman by eternally delaying legislation...