Word: jitterbugged
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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...
Their star is "Handy Andy" Phillip, 20-year-old son of a Granite City (Ill.) steelworker. When this imperturbable string bean with jitterbug feet gets in the groove, shooting baskets from all angles, he makes even the opposing galleries whistle themselves dizzy. In twelve games this season Andy scored 255 points, an alltime Big Ten high. He is Illinois's most renowned athlete since Red Grange...
...legal comics who help him are so neolithic that Mr. Mature at his best seems no worse than a particularly acute touch of Hodgkin's disease. Lucille Ball looks patient, tired, a little frightened. As her young sister, 17-year-old Newcomer Marcy McGuire makes a charming jitterbug for those whom bugs charm...