Word: pushed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...some of it by Gilbert & Sullivan; produced by Michael Todd) does not, like the Federal Theatre's Swing Mikado (TIME, March 13), tacitly beg Gilbert & Sullivan's pardon for cutting up. Instead it impatiently regards them as two aged gentlemen whose wheel chairs need a good strong push. Once pushed, the wheel chairs go bounding lickety-split. Before the ride is half over, Gilbert falls out and breaks his neck. But Sullivan lands bruised and breathless in Harlem, in time to inquire-when the band plays his Oh, Living I-"Just what is that odd bit of music...
...other night at a Count Basic dance, a rather merry young lady in black skunk furs, proceeded to climb onto the band stand, push tenor man Bud Tate out of his chair, sit down and clap her hands while cooing benevolently upon the audience. Aside from the fact that the look on Bud's face was funny as hell, a very serious question was brought up. Just what is the average leader going to do about the jitterbug? Benny Goodman recently wrote a long article proving that the jitterbugs caused his band to play as loudly as it does because...
...should be eliminated forever. He's taking steps to do just that in the U. S. semi-pro finals here next August. He is arranging to have a tube run out to home plate at the stadium here containing compressed air. A man in the press box will push a button and the air will dust off the plate automatically...
Monday. "German boys," lied Berlin papers on Monday, "are mishandled with brass knuckles . . . while Jews applaud. . . . German houses are fired on by Czech armored cars. . . . Murder and arson rule again in the Czecho-Slovak Republic. . . ." Radio announcers talked of "Communists in Czech gendarme uniforms." Next day the push began in earnest...
...century ago the press of England, if not its Government, was made of tougher stuff. The Times was not the Government organ it is now but a muckraking, anti-aristocratic, jingoistic sheet. In 1854 it helped to push the country into the Crimean War, then ribbed the Government for all its blunders and published such thorough accounts of British strategy that the Russians were tipped off on it in advance. The Foreign Minister, Lord Clarendon, complained...