Word: jiving
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...March 1946, he got the job-writing the new society chitchat and gossip column that W.R. Hearst had ordered. As "Freddie Francisco," Patterson filled his column with racy penthouse scandal and jive talk, was soon earning $15,000 a year as the Examiner's prize drawing card. Once, when he called a lady Oakland evangelist "sexy-looking," her congregation picketed the Examiner. A great gagster, Freddie rented a beard and paraded with the pickets. He also crusaded against Elmer ("Bones") Remmer, owner of San Francisco's three biggest gambling houses, and drove Bones out of business. (When offered...
...score. If no one of its tunes equals Begin the Beguine or Get a Kick Out of You, all 17 of them have their good points, and together form a sort of triumphal procession. They range from the slow torching of So in Love Am I to the fast jive of Too Darn Hot, from the musical brio of We Open in Venice to the verbal lift of Always True to You (In My Fashion). And again & again melody and mockery go hand in hand-nowhere better than in Wunderbar, a charming bit of schmalz-and a devilish parody...
...year-old Negro middleweight,* was down twice in the third round. At the bell, he stumbled woozily to his corner. To test his reactions, his manager threw questions at him quickly. "What's ya name. . . What town we in. . . What round is it?" Darthard muttered: "Cut out the jive, I'll get this guy." The guy he had to get was 160-lb. Bert Lytell, also a Negro and more noted for shiftiness than for a punch. But after the sixth round, Darthard looked in terrible shape. His manager tried questions again and got only a thick-tongued...
...others (by Rose's reckoning): concert, theater, movies, ballet, opera, jive...
Bacteria act that way only in rare genetic emergencies. Dr. Tatum selected two groups of Escherichia coli (bacteria which Jive in the intestines) and watched them. They multiplied normally by splitting in two, a solitary process. Then Dr. Tatum bombarded some of them with X rays and ultraviolet light. This damaged their insides. The metabolic cripples could still multiply by division (when coddled), but Dr. Tatum hoped that offended nature would somehow force them to repair their deficiencies...