Word: jitterbug
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...right is Radio Starlet Florida Edwards, who won an $8,180 judgment against the Hollywood Canteen for an injury to her coccyx, suffered while dancing with a "jive-maddened" Marine. Her plight inspired Los Angeles Superior Judge Henry M. Willis to a judicial definition of "jitterbug." Said he: "The word bug is defined ... as a crazy person. The word jitter means extreme nervousness. This combination, therefore, approaches the description of one witness who said the jitterbug dance was crazy...
Though most of the numbers on the program were Hampton originals, they lacked the musical expressiveness of Ellington compositions and it can only be hoped that Lionel will in the future refrain from the concert stage and remain in the jitterbug dance halls where his music belongs...
Personally, I feel that the question of swinging military marches is a question for commanding officers to settle. Do they want their armies to march with military bearing, to fine inspiring rhythm-or do they prefer them to "jitterbug" their way along...
...astute organizer, and the attack by the Yalies is certain to be well syncopated. No doubt they intend to jitterbug through the Common in a dance of victory...
...Walters) is Shubert flapdoodle. In 1934 and 1936 the Shuberts borrowed this lustrous title to some effect, but this time they have thrown it away on a completely lackluster show. Alternating undistinguished sketches with indistinguishable tunes, gaudy spectacles with soggy satire, young legs with old gags, handsome clothes with jitterbug clatter, it is just the Shuberts' old Winter Garden formula to cop the summer trade...