Word: rocke
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Rock-A-Bye Basie (Count Basie; Vocalion). New theme song of the No. 1 colored hot band...
...with thousands of butter lamps, frequently lasted from sunrise to sunset, with 10,000 monks repeating one chant up to 108,000 times. Author Bernard braved the black chamber of horrors filled with fiendish and erotic idols, kept his head during four days of solitary confinement in a rock cave...
...real slow, relaxed shagging. Just as most white swing bands play mostly fast, stiff music while calling it swing, so do the jitterbugs dance out of time, pressing the beat so much that they can't same time and watch the crowd shag to easy tempos. They just rock along, everybody taking his time, but it still swings. When Krupa was playing his theater tour last summer, he had two kids with him who really did a marvelous job: they danced to fast tunes, but with all the case and grace of a couple of cats. That's what makes...
...Supreme Court fight. Unwilling to help "The Boss" in that struggle, the Vice President asked and got permission to go home, go fishing. Joe Robinson was fighting Mr. Roosevelt's battle as well as he could. But the effort killed Joe Robinson. After the funeral at Little Rock, Ark., John Garner went straight to Franklin Roosevelt, plainly told him his Court plan was beaten, but he still was loyal enough to engineer a compromise that saved some face...
...from waving his shares in the public's face, Joseph Errington last week clenched his cigar, said he had no intention of putting the stock up for public sale, said he did intend to start shipping Steep Rock Lake ore east to Lake Superior...