Word: shaking
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Fields, Eddie Cantor, Will Rogers, Fanny Brice, Bert Williams, Walter Catlett, Peggy Hopkins (later Joyce) in the cast. Or to the Follies of 1919, with a cast hardly less impressive, and such tunes as Tulip Time, Mandy, and the nonpareil Bert Williams' You Cannot Make Your Shimmy Shake...
...audiences have seen him jump about the podium like a college cheerleader, stand on one foot, kick up his heels, shake his fists, lunge with his arms, yell at the brass, lose his baton, nearly lose his balance. They have watched this catalogue of gestures bring from the orchestra a beautifully controlled flow of pliant, clearly articulated symphonic sound. No conductor has a more eloquent sign language for encouraging, warning, cajoling or just plain frightening orchestra musicians into giving him what he wants. Sir Thomas, unlike most maestros, seldom bothers to beat time-he seems able to infect musicians with...
...speech, a bulletin was enough to drive the country to its knees or raise it to strutting tiptoes. Now the national pulse was quieter; the people had partly steeled themselves, had partly grown accustomed to the changes & chances of war news. Only the most violent of shocks now could shake or elate the nation...
Under the constant pounding, the Del Commune began to stagger. Her joints creaked. With every blow her decks seemed to buckle. She sprang a leak under the stern transom. Given time, she seemed bound to shake herself to pieces. "You just cain't go kickin' this river around this way," murmured one of Captain Joe's copilots. "You just cain...
Weighing in started at noon yesterday and will continue until 2 o'clock today. The preliminaries will be run off today and the finals are to be held at 3 o'clock tomorrow. "All right, men, shake hands, go to your corners, and come out fighting...