Word: jiving
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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ROME--Sharp warnings to Jugoslavia to swing into line with the Rome-Berlin Axis were issued today as Premier Benito Mussolini watched his troops stage a sham battle with Jive shells close to the Jugoslav frontier...
Only Sophomores will be eligible for the editorial, photographic, and business boards but any student of any class can jive on down to his heart's content in the competition for swing columnist 7:30 o'clock in the Crimson Building at 14 Plympton street is the time...
Jitterbugs are not crazy, wrote Animal Lover Ellsworth Jaeger in Nature Magazine last week. They merely carry on ancient dance patterns which lower animals developed eons before man appeared on the earth. Jive-Justifier Jaeger described jitterbug patterns of 16 animals, ranging all the way from "thread legged bugs" to caribou. Samples...
...Contrasts," his theme song and the best record Jimmy Dorsay has made in some time. This is a really unusual record, beautifully recorded with James playing superb six... "Beautiful Dreamer"-more Stephen Foster by Cana Loma, and well done... "No Name Jive," by Charlie Barnet, shows once again how few ideas are in this band, how noisy ... while on the contrary we elect Woody Horman to the post of "Power House King" for his "Get Your Boots Laced Poppa." If you like tremendous drive-here it is-two full sides...
Masterminds of the New Friends are Cellist Alan Shulman, who does the arrangements and has written two original pieces for the group (High Voltage, Mood in Question), and his brother Sylvan, a violinist who is probably the first to jive on wax with a $15,000 Stradivarius (borrowed). Known around NBC as "Toscanini's hep cats," the New Friends do not know how "The Old Man" likes their recordings, which were sent to him last Christmas. Toscanini made no comment, but his cats suspect that he does not mind...