Word: reale
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...main objection to this band is that it plays a stereotyped style of music, very often not original. By clever buildup and publicity the public has been led to believe that this is the real thing in swing. Shallow stuff like this will lead the listening audience to become very tired of something they have been told was swing, and therefore to condemn it. "Swing is a verb, not a noun." You can play things in swing, but there is no such thing as a swing tune. Without good, sincere swing men in the band, unhampered by stiff, copied arrangements...
...range-punching cows with such picturesque partners as Absolute Jones, Greasy Oscar, Springtime, hunting with the Piegan Indians, getting mixed up in an Indian war. It is cowboys-&-Indians romance plus a heroine. But Author Boyd's cowboys, Indians, adventures, "cussing ladies," homesteaders, plains and hills are as real as oldtime calico, make the Wild West almost as gripping for grownups as it once was in the dime novels of one's youth...
Written in collaboration with swimmer Guy Larcom, Jr., the volume contains numerous illustrations of natatorial technique a la Ulen. Speed aces Charlie Hutter and Willie Kendall spent many minutes last year posing for pictures to show how real swimmers use their arms and legs. There is also a chapter devoted to women swimmers, profusely illustrated, of course...
...process of my research I found a great many conflicting opinions from Mencken's violent denunciation to hero-worshipping biographies like Billy Herndon's. The most important point of controversy always seemed to rest on the real force behind Lincoln's agitation for abolition...
...evening before to drown out thoughts of gals and gables, and coming back to their boarding house in the smaller hours of the morning, they decided they wanted something to eat. In the house ice-box they found a large bunk of juicy hamburg steak. Here was a real find! They cooked it gleefully and ate it with relish. It was delicious...