Word: jived
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...over at Phillips Brooks House the other night and I heard some music emanating from the third deck so I investigated. . . I found a real jive session in progress and learned that they were rehearsing for a Record Hop on July 14 . . . FRANK DAVIS, JAMES OLIVER, F. GLENETT and M. LYSING will give out to all the solid senders instead of the usual wax discs. . . that should be very good between...
...swarthy, pint-sized Private Woodrow Wilson Rich (famed boy-prodigy violinist Ruggiero Ricci)* and his cellist brother George Washington Rich. Wood Wilson Rich (who has developed a soldierly liking for hot dogs) sits in the middle of the second row of violinists, fiddles such Santa Ana numbers as Jive Bomber on his $3,000 Lorenzo Storione violin...
...special programs which U.S. radio fans would give plenty to hear. Forty-odd shows a week are heard only by the armed forces. Command Performance gives the boys a variety show of anything they ask for (from Bing Crosby to Ann Sheridan frying a steak). G.I. (Government Issue) Jive is a steaming session of hot music. There are religious programs (Music For Sunday), adaptations of novels, plays (Front Line Theatre), classical music, sports reviews...
...Higginbotham was very off-and-onish. One moment he'd blow an amazing chorus, and the next would be the same old jive. From some of the weirder stuff, it sounds as if Higie is trying to change his style...
...Learn Spanish not only offers a Spanish vocabulary appropriate for ordinary use, but also gives listeners a chance to hear it used without pedantry. There are "heavy-duty" adjectives, outrageous word-fixing puns, "today's special," nouns that "walk out with" adjectives, phrases like "considerable jive in the singular," and a host of colloquial asides...