Word: jiving
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...sort of [picture] from which students of art, history, and economics can glean information easily on the physical and psychological mores in Flanders four centuries ago. These well fed and active folk bouncing rhythmically to tones from a bagpipe reveal that jazz, jive and jamboree are but modern terms for pleasurable responses long existent in the joys of men & women in group festivities . . . Please give your pages more of such fun-provoking...
With that, the stage took on the appearance of a teenage jive joint, and members of the Academic's high school group, which meets once a week, presented a combination fashion show, beauty pageant and musical comedy, with slight Old Howard over-tones. (At least there was a runway, making every seat a front row seat.) The girls were extremely nervous and the narrator found herself forced to ad lib when the "sub-deb in the fetching pink chiffon formal," failed to appear. During this portion of the program, a paid pianist ground away relentlessly, providing suitably nondescript background music...
...soon traded for a flashy Chrysler), the school became a teacher's nightmare. He packed a snub-nosed .38 pistol tucked in his waistband. He had a switch knife with which he picked his teeth. He flashed a roll of bills and spouted the fastest brand of jive talk his astounded classmates had ever heard...
...G.l.s who like jive and pin-up girls in about equal proportions, the Armed Forces Radio Service hit upon a neat solution: wrap up both and deliver them in a single package. The package is a pretty ex-movie starlet named Rebel Randall, the disc jockey of Jukebox, U.S.A., whose face and statistics (36 in. bust and hips, 24-in. waist) are every bit as appealing as her throaty voice...
...dance craze was sweeping the hemisphere. Part rumba and part jive, with a strong dash of itching powder, the mambo had left unstormed only the tango strongholds of Argentina and the samba-land of Brazil. In all the other Americas, dancers quivered and kicked-sedately in swank nightclubs and wildly in smoky dives-to the mambo beat. This week its originator, Dámaso Pérez Prado, 29, was scheduled to arrive in New York to carry the assault...