Word: jitterbug
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Huff & cuff as they might last week, the girl-birlers failed to get rid of Miss Malott. In the final, hoofing like a jitterbug, she took petite Bette Berkley, an 18-year-old stenographer from the sawmill town of Longview, Wash., for two straight falls...
Last week the world's biggest dance hall opened in Manhattan and thousands of the jitterbug youth of the Melting Pot jounced, flung and stomped themselves into possession of it. The hall was Manhattan's famous Madison Square Garden, turned into a summer Dance Carnival at a cost of $100,000 by Showman Monte Proser...
...some with three or five members) and the guitar-playing bishop. The bishop, the Rev. Utah Smith, wears paper wings, lately inspired Composer-Critic Thomson to write: "As a stimulator of choric transports he incites the faithful to movements and behavior not very different from those of any true jitterbug. Myself, I found it distinctly pleasant to hear good swing work and to observe its effects in surroundings imbued with Protestant Christianity rather than among the alcoholic stupidities and more somber diabolisms of the nightclub world...
...offensive is extremely rapid, violent, and hard to resist; totalitarian: of or having to do with a government controlled by one political group that permits no other political groups"). But youths found that in some respects their dictionary shortchanges them. Conspicuously missing are such well-rooted youthful words as jitterbug, jive...
...this eupeptic program were the mutilated soldiers taking the mountain air outside their hospital. Nor had the Propaganda Ministry expected the party to reach the strident high tension it attained. Best expression of Germany's war spirit was the favorite dance, a nameless, aimless jitterbug caper. Said one German girl: "I guess you could call it a war dance...