Word: reel
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Apparently overlooked in the wave of jazz and swing that has swept the country in recent years, the old Virginia Reel, polka, and Schotish of yesteryear are enjoying a rebirth of popularity, appearing with increasing prominence at parties and among the colleges of the country...
...Reel and Rock with the Deacon's Flock" will soon be the cry in Kirkland's Common Room. The Deacons are expecting to cough up 30 bucks for the latest in jive and jazz. Rug cutter Ted (Jo McGurk) Meredith is in charge of expenditures and has put up a suggestion sheet on the Dining Room bulletin board...
...train its Army for World War II the U.S. is going to use about 300 motion picture films. Because the Army's Signal Corps Laboratories at Fort Monmouth, N.J. and Wright Field, Ohio, now working on some 250 reels, cannot turn them out fast enough, the Army gave Hollywood a 140-reel assignment. Having received all but 40 of the Hollywood consignment, the Army recently showed five of them to a lay audience. They were full of surprises. The five...
...thud... thud... thud as (three words censored) bombs explode about a mile distant. There is no respite from the gunfire now. Wheece... a bomb glides right over as and penetrates a lawn 500 yards away; its explosion, fortunately muffled by the soft earth, makes every house in the district reel and shudder. Bombs thud down one after the other. An incendiary bomb smacks onto our roof blinding for a moment and splashing melted metal and flame, but with the aid of a rake it is dislodged and flicked off into the garden to burn itself out; had it been left...
...German Government and Major Belmonte, in a full-dress, press-radio-news-reel interview in Berlin this week, vehemently called the letter a fake, hinted strongly that it had been forged...