Word: jiving
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...third night was the real opening: first come, first served. At 8 p.m., two hours after the doors opened, a thousand men stood in line outside, while inside the band blared, the French hostesses valiantly attempted English, even more valiantly attempted jive, looked relieved when they lighted on a Frenchman...
...radio program begun in 1942 with her husband, ex-Radioman Mort Werner. As "Jack and Jill" they served up a mixture of jazz and banter called Hi, Neighbor. A.F.R.S. took over the program in the spring of 1943. Soon Jill (minus Jack) was doing a solo act called G.I. Jive (now AEF Jukebox...
Political Swings. In Chicago, dancing teachers introduced the Dewey Dip, "a sedate jive with three samba steps dropping into a dip," and the Roosevelt Roger, a step with "lots of action, whirlabouts, and plenty of travel." Pitch Battle. In Philadelphia, the police broke up a fight between a man with a knife and a man swinging a guitar in his left hand, a mandolin in his right...
...apparently was something exceptionally precious, something which even in the circumstances had to be kept dry. We had just picked up our chow and were sitting around miserably starting to eat, when from this piece of canvas came the sound of music. It was strange music. It was jive-American jive. I never did find out whose jive it was, but it was gay, rhythmic, and in no time at all it had us feeling 100% better...
Flamenco v. Classical. When a Spaniard speaks of flamenco music, he means a kind of inspired strumming and wailing, rich in Moorish overtones, which bears about the same relation to the comparatively sedate folk music of Spain that New Orleans jive does to the prim fiddling of U.S. hillbillies. Few performers are equally good at both flamenco and "classical" music...