Word: medleyed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...this lush setting, the conference was actually a medley of conferences: Stalin, Churchill, Roosevelt conferred on overall plans; Eden and Molotov with Stettinius on preliminary plans for Germany and liberated Europe; Admiral Kuznetsov, the Red Army's Deputy Chief of Staff Antonev, Marshal of Aviation Kutyarov with Britain's General Brooke, Field Marshal Wilson, Admiral Cunningham and the U.S. military (see U.S. AT WAR) on final war plans. Stalin had much the smallest staff (the joint announcement listed twelve Britons, 13 Americans, only eight Russians in attendance on the Big Three...
...Land! (book by Walter Kerr; produced by the Theater Guild) is a songbook history of American life. Combining folk music with Tin Pan Alley tunes, it warbles its way across the centuries-the voice of a canoeman floating down the Ohio, a chorus raised in an Illinois clearing, a medley of tunes on a Mississippi steamboat, a soldiers' rouse round a Civil War campfire, the guttural throb of Negro blues, the frilly ditties of the Gay Nineties, the brash rhythms of speakeasy jazz...
...multitudinous fans, which last week celebrated its tenth birthday. Down Beat lacks the dignity of its chief rival, Metronome. It lacks the pure devotion to hot jazz of such earnest little sheets as The Jazz Record. But Down Beat is certainly the most faithful reflection of the whole noisy medley of U.S. dance music, from the blues to the samba, from the mechanical to the inspired. And Down Beat, with a wartime paid circulation of 87,000, is a highly successful ten-year...
...expensive. Topping the entire musical budget of many a city thrice its size, Long Beach (pop. 225,000) spends $86,210 a year on its municipal band. In the sparkling California summer, when the band's 33 members move out of the Municipal Auditorium and strike up Hawaiian Medley or Gems from the Bohemian Girl in the seaside bandstand, Long Beachers walk thither with springy steps, feeling that their money has been well spent. Last week an audience of 5,000 swarmed on the sand to hear the opening concert of the summer season...
Members cried: "Nonsense. . . . The Prime Minister makes liars of the members. ..." In a medley of cheers from the faithful, glum glances from the critics, Winston Churchill stomped...