Word: jiving
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Because of such problems, the Express also decided that Canyon and his jive talking crew had to go; Steve & Co. vanished from the Express without so much as a waggle of their wings. Steve's passing gave a clue to the differences between U.S. and British comic-strip tastes. Blondie is a fixture, in the Daily Graphic. Said an editor: "It never gets beyond the trifling happenings that go on in everyone's life all over the world." Donald Duck, Mandrake the Magician and King of the Royal Mounted have been accepted because they are easily understood...
...puts on the stuff, then he takes a pin Applies some pressure till the jive sinks in The people are nice, and they treat you great So don't wait, Gate-Vaccinate...
...partners (Saylor and three other Record men) brought out All-Negro Comics, a 48-page, 15? monthly, the first to be drawn by Negro artists and peopled entirely by Negro characters. Its star: "Ace Harlem," a Dick Tracy-like detective. The villains were a couple of zoot-suited, jive-talking Negro muggers, whose presence in anyone else's comics might have brought up complaints of racial "distortion." Since it was all in the family, Evans thought no Negro readers would mind...
...plays is presented as if she were just too terribly cute, whereas she is actually playing a spoiled brat who has yet to learn that the world is not her oyster. Mr. Madison, pouting perpetually, matches her for infantilism and bad manners, point for point; and they talk a jive dialect in which one of the most intelligible words is "jeepers." Those who find such types attractive will get a lot of laughs. In spite of the handicaps. Miss Temple plays her sinister assignment adroitly and, now that she's getting to be a big girl, looks quite...
City Editor Lane, who had been thinking of starting a teen-age column, gave Val the job. Chicago's bobbysoxers screeched with delight. Val never preached to them ("Kids don't like that"), seldom used jive talk ("Kids don't talk like that unless they're showing off"). She simply reported the news of parties, juke-joints, new fads, new records...