Word: jiving
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...great Rubber Scandal, far from being solved, moved into an even dizzier confusion, a Wonderland where jabberwocky jive talk about buna, butyl and guayule was the only language spoken...
...pound Army private named Burl Icle Ivanhoe Ives was making a great hit last week with A.E.F. boys all over the globe. In a new short-wave act called G.I.* Jive, short-waved from the Manhattan studios of OWI to all U.S. Army bases overseas. Master of Ceremonies Ives's friendly small talk, familiar recordings and songs on the git-tar were just what the first sergeant ordered...
...July 13). Each morning he drilled with the rest of the cast on a vacant lot in Manhattan. Two mornings a week (Sundays 8:45 a.m., Thursdays 9:30 a.m. E.W.T.) his strumming guitar and his warm tenor voice plugged the Army show over CBS. He took the daily Jive stint happily in stride...
...stuff over here. Anyway, this means a cut in rug-cutting, and no good news for highbrows, either. Needle-nuts can play their old platters down to a nub for all Donald Nelson cares, Only bugle at the funeral is that shellac in records can be reclaimed; maybe the jive jerks will be able to turn in old disks for new ones like toothpaste tubes. But the whole thing sounded to hot men like a can of corn at a real session...
...weeks ago, however, and I heard it kindly spoken of at the time. Then there is Johnnie "Scat" Davis at Lowell House, who suffers, at least in this column, from competition with Kirk the same night. You, too have probably sat through a collegiate movie in which his obstreperous jive has been prominently featured. His orchestra seems to be just a backdrop for his antics, which have been fairly well received in the stage shows in which he has been appearing for the past few weeks. It might be well to visit the RKO Boston the week before the dance...