Word: rhythms
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...almost drove the audience into a frenzy. Your reviewer distinctly counted three women who actually jumped at least six inches out of their seats during one of the rendition. Also peppy was Sandy and his band. While scientific tests may show that colored children have no more rhythm than their white school-mates there can be on possible dispute that the actors and actresses in "Hi-de-ho" achieve an ecstatic chaos of the human body that defies the Nordic...
Outside the world is swaying in a light and airy rhythm. The swank blues and mousey grays of Central Square hoyer by; gay bucks and their plebeian maids are on the shabby avenue, tempting one to stray abroad. The Vagabond, pigeon-breasted from long days at his books, expands his lungs, and plunges into the indescribale subway entrance. There, his stick and gloves, his shining topper, are the center of a half-awed admiration. He enters the car like a fairy prince swirling away in his coach; even the guards bow and scrape like tousled sycophants...
...Vagabond leaves, looking straight before him, intently and desperate. He proceeds, with irregular stops, to a class. His legs are shot through with stabbing pains, and twist them as he may, he cannot soothe them. The lecture speaks more and more slowly, his words finally arriving in a heaving rhythm which leaves the Vagabond with faint shudders. The class closes, and he wanders forth, counting the brown boards in the hall. He enters the local cinema, where refractory shapes sway in a concatenation of primordial emotions which is the very essence of ennui. Lights go by; imbeciles speak. The streets...
...Frisco") made a speech which gave a brighter look to the song industry. When beer comes back, he said, people will be inspired to sing once more. Irving Berlin has expressed the same conviction: "Songwriters undoubtedly will be influenced by the return of beer and beer gardens. . . . The tricky rhythm so popular for the past eight years is dying out. Songs will become a little simpler, or 'corny,' meaning more homey. Since the advent of the radio we have become a nation of listeners. Now we are hopeful that the nation will begin to sing again...
Current influenza is much milder than the devastating disease of 1918. Epidemiologists have been unable to discern rhythm or reason to these surges. In England the Press, having noted an unseasonable amount of rain, fog and snow over North Europe, blames raw weather...