Word: jiving
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...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...
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...large, bad impulse. Ursula, still game after hectic questioning, haggard, her impulsive uncombed head under a badly tied turban, was freed on $1,000 bail. The near future held for her, first, the star witness part in an approaching Federal narcotics case. Those of the ex-bandsman's jive-plucking friends that could be reached mostly made the same comment: "Mike always was a damn good guitar player...
...They were the zoot-suit wearers, the jive bombers and the jitter-bugs...
...Listen, all you cats and fine chicks, I want you to dig a mess of this jive. Because I want to hip you to my buddy-boy, Hollywood Al. He knows those fine hip styles you all like so much-that extra-wide knee 28, 29, 30 inches and that peg bottom way down to 14 inches-that are really a killer. . . . When you buy in Hollywood Al's Pants Shop you are buying from a hip cat who knows what it's all about because he's been around plenty...