Word: jiving
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...your vocabulary is strictly stock, and the teen-agers tell you it's off the cob, you may as well stop bumping your gums. But you, too, can get on the grooby side. A jive-talk glossary that is strictly Dracula has been put out by Parents' Institute, publishers of Calling All Girls (and Parents' Magazine). Some excerpts...
...where do they come from? Well, stand at ease, fella, and we'll tell ya. Thus far we've got five pieces--now wait a second, wuddya mean they probably don't sound so hot with only five fellas? Listen, skipper, each one of those jive bugs is an orchestra in himself. You still don't believe it? O.K., just name a man in these parts who can give out on the trumpet like Jimmy Oliver of Company C. No, we're not gonna make any cracks about the Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy of Company C, 'cause he's beyond...
...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...