Word: phoney
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...French programs by WRUL were begun during the "phoney war" of 1939. Tyler states, but it was not until the defeat of France that a team of six Harvard French instructors, including Howard C. Rice, Edward D. Sullivan, Robert J. Clements, George L Picard, William N. Locke, and Georges Dumontet, played one of the most important parts in the success of WRUL...
This is the logical climax of all those earlier isolationist judgments that began with Senator Borah's dictum: "This is a phoney...
...only male ballad singer who is tolerated by members of his own sex. The luscious-lipped groaners of the Ray Eberle variety may be all right for a few frustrated high-school girls, but for those who want to hear somebody just plain sing a tune minus the phoney, studied emotional decorations, there's only one Bing Crosby...
...they will go on to say that it's a kind of musical commentary on a great intellectual movement with all sorts of social implications thrown in. Be that as it may, and whatever jazz might represent, it's certainly deserving of more dignity than a few phoney press releases loaded with...
...Allen band at New York's Cafe Society, you won't hear better jazz in a small combination. Take, for instance, the way the band plays on ordinary pop tune. They open it with a light, bouncing piano chorus, and then Fats gives a vocal burlesque of the phoney Broadway sentiment voiced in the lyrics. After everybody digs a bit more, Gene Cedric (who, incidentally, is probably the most unappreciated jazz musician alive), slips in a tenor ride passage and Herman Autrey a trumpet. Finally, Fats takes the release, and by the time everybody else comes in for a terrific...