Word: smacked
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...worth talking about so far had been rung up by three concessionaires: Frank Buck's monkey mountain, Jungleland; Life Saver's Parachute Jump; Billy Rose's Aquacade. Housed in the Marine Amphitheatre in the New York State Building, at the gateway to the amusement section and smack across the Fair from the Trylon & Perisphere Theme Centre, the Aquacade and its huge electric sign last week flashed out one of the most amazing success stories in the anthology of show business...
...Augustus Lindbergh. Newsmen still found lacking, however, publicity for one phase of Air Corps activity more dramatic than any other. Lest it seem too warlike, the Corps is not allowed by the War Department to publicize the extreme accuracy which its bombers have attained. They now can guarantee to smack their targets as precisely from 28,000 feet as they do from 8,000. With their proven flight range, they constitute a first-line of defense against enemy war-boats far at sea off either coast from bases far inland. Yet the same go-easy policy prevails as when...
When meteors smack the earth's surface, they are called meteorites. Under their new citizenship, these celestial migrants are subject to earthly laws, even the law of supply & demand. So, at least, a rotund, retired dentist & amateur geologist last week tried to prove at Chatham, Ontario...
...memorial room in which Carrara marble figures of Washington Duke and Sons Buck and Benjamin lie in state. Below is a crypt for members of the Duke family. What Professor Blackburn fails to mention, but what no visitor can fail to see, is a ten-foot statue, smack in front of the chapel, of baggy-trousered, clod-hoppered Buck Duke, holding a big cigar...
...their tunes--great precision and timing, but still maintaining a solid Kansas City swing. Most unusual feature of the band is the rhythm in which they play a great many of their slow selections--a type of bounce style that never is as tiring as the Goodman four-four "smack." As to what bounce is, combine the sensations of riding over a bumpy road, and Hedy Lamarr for best explanation. Listen to the band's recording of "My Blue Heaven" and you'll see what is meant. Besides playing excellent ensemble swing and "show" numbers such...