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...cats' meow: This week Red Norvo announced that he was sick and tired of the cut-throat competition in jazz and the necessity of playing what he considered to be rotten music in order to get a lot of work, and announced that he was from now on going to work only a few nights a week, make records, and that he was going to take postgraduate work at Juillard Institute in New York just for the fun of it! There are too few guys like this who want to play good, relaxed music so much that they will give...

Author: By Michael Levin, | Title: Swing | 10/13/1939 | See Source »

...Meow...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: 15 Cents a Song | 7/20/1931 | See Source »

...Southern Charm consists of the anticipation and then the actuality of Laura's arrival. But Author Glenn does not overlook the element of charm that prevents her female Southerners from being monsters. This is perhaps because she was born in Atlanta and has herself strayed Northward, not to meow, but to chuckle...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Southern Impudence | 1/9/1928 | See Source »

...wish to object to the singing at Saturday's game of the parody song to the tune of "Meow" that has been practiced at recent mass meetings. Harvard has plenty of good football songs which are the equal, if not better, than those of any other college; it does not need to resort to cheap words set to a popular tune to sing at its games. It is a pretty bad state of affairs when Harvard has to go to the dance halls to find a football song. If "Harvardians," "Soldiers Field," "The Gridiron King," and the "Marseillaise" will...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Communication | 11/19/1919 | See Source »

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