Word: obbligatoed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...complete job on U.S. slang is beyond human compass. "God-box" is given for Church but not for organ. "Profile" is curiously absent from journalistic slang. The Hollywood section fails to include "ootchimagootchi" (hot talk as an obbligato to Latin lovemaking), though it does give "wrinkle" (an actress' mother...
First conversation, an obbligato to a program of Bing Crosby records, was between two Jersey City men-about-town, who dwelt on the previous night's amours. Said one: "So everything was all right, eh?" Said the other...
...celebration provided good bucolic fare. Secretary of Agriculture Claude Raymond Wickard spoke from Washington, then an announcer in Indiana described the Secretary's Carroll County farm while Wickard livestock supplied a grunting, snuffling obbligato. From Indiana the program wandered to a Georgia vegetable garden, a poultry house in California, a wheat field in North Dakota. As usual the show was neither cute nor corny. It aimed to tell the farmer about his business, got down to earth as speedily as a gopher...
This warning was part of the obbligato of talk which the Italians supplied all last week to the rumble of Nazi guns. It was broadcast over the Italian radio...
...lead, and his cornet rips out what you'll recognize as the melody if you can follow the chord sequence. 'George Brunics makes a background foundation on trombone, long, deep, throaty notes which you won't ever hear Tommy Dorsey play. Pee Wee Russell is playing clarinet obbligato, weaving a jerky, almost insane pattern of dissonant, spit-laden phrases, companying his efforts with facial contortions that make you fear for his blood-pressure. And all the time, the rhythm section led by George Wetting's drums and Eddic Condon's guitar, is giving the boys a wonderful beat to work...