Word: kick
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...swing music to appear in a lay publication. . . . Greater stress might have been attached to the emotional appeal of swing music. Swing fans, when listening to real swing music, work up a sort of satisfied glow that in especially meaningful passages reaches a climax of nerve stimulation-a "kick.". . . CHARLIE EMGE...
...Compton that such rays, although a form of light, could act like bullets as well as waves. If on colliding with gas atoms they lost part of their energy as bullets, they should recoil as waves weaker in intensity and hence longer in wave length. In addition they should kick electrons out of the gas. With apparatus so sensitive that it measured one ten-millionth of the energy of a mosquito climbing an inch of screen, he showed that this was true. This "Compton effect" went far to explain photo-electricity and to make the old idea of a light...
...Marjorie Lawrence's Brünnhilde, the most impressive debut of the week was made by Swedish Gertrud Wettergren as Amneris in Aïda. Mme. Wettergren had received flaring advance publicity when she arrived in the U. S. month ago, asked two ship-news reporters to kick her "for luck" (TIME, Dec. 2). Her performance last week proved that she could rely on something sounder than luck. She is an accomplished, rich-voiced singer with a commanding stage presence and a fine flair for acting. As Amneris she was regal enough to be a king's daughter...
...Next day Stanford invited Southern Methodist to the Rose Bowl. Southern Methodist lost no time accepting. No team is ever more uneasy about Yale than Princeton. Taking no chances of a repetition of last year's fiasco, a coolheaded, well-disciplined Princeton eleven began by modestly kicking a field goal. Their first touchdown was made by Jack White at the end of the first half, after Pepper Constable seemed to have given the ball to everybody else on the Princeton team. Then in the fourth period, the Tigers opened up, pushed over four touchdowns in rapid succession. Meantime, having...
...passion is apparent between the lines. Most of Peggy Bacon's poems and pictures are impressions of city life, ranging from a glimpse of a laborer asleep in a subway to a literary party, from a professional invalid who needs "a wrap, a steak, a toddy and a kick!" to a celebrity who seems "so small beneath her crown!" A contrast between a farmer's "quilted hills" and a desolate city ruin suggests the type of life Peggy Bacon opposes to that which she satirizes. One surprisingly tender lyric, "Detached," indicates that she writes best when...