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Word: revels (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...about 1,500 jazz records to take home with him. Critic Lim did not like jitterbugs. They seemed like irreverent, undignified drunkards. "If," said he, "we in Batavia were ever so lucky as to hear a concert by Duke Ellington or Tommy Dorsey, we would study it, sit and revel in the sound of it, but we would not shake our fingers at it nor cut the carpet with our shoes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: From Batavia | 8/21/1939 | See Source »

...cool contralto and cozy curves are still cinemusically perfect. Some of the numbers old & new she ably croons and sighs: I'm Just Wild About Harry, I'm Sorry I Made You Cry, I Never Knew Heaven Could Speak (the last by Mack Gordon & Harry Revel...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: New Picture: May 15, 1939 | 5/15/1939 | See Source »

Originally intended as a vehicle for Eddie Cantor, Thanks for Everything might have been made to order for Jack Haley, who contrives to seem just as woebegone as Cantor with much less facial exertion. Best song: Gordon & Revel's You're the World's Fairest...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Dec. 19, 1938 | 12/19/1938 | See Source »

...that, it is unfair. There is still an implicit contractual agreement between student and teacher; for his course fee the undergraduate is still entitled to demand a certain amount of instruction in sections as distinguished from lectures. Only by limiting the freedom in which the Math A instructors now revel can the Mathematics Department effectively fulfill its duty to the average Math student...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SECTION SITUATION | 11/28/1938 | See Source »

...half-dozen words of explanation which would have immediately stopped the fuss. Having saved their father from the girl, Ameche and Young alternate in saving the girl from each other. Josette is not for the lorgnette trade, but its general nimbleness, bright lines and pleasant tunes by Gordon and Revel give it a reasonably high entertainment quotient...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Jun. 13, 1938 | 6/13/1938 | See Source »

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