Word: sort
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...every record in sight with the most disgusting regularity for the past nine months. Down in Atlantic City this summer with lots of the name bands around, including his brother Tommy, Jimmy managed to gather some thousands of dance fans around for a new house record. Reason for this sort of thing is very simple: Jimmy has one of the very few bands that play good dance music, good swing, have good soloists, a colorful style, a leader that gets along with his band and the crowd, and two of the best vocalists in the business...
...Brown and Sonny Burke, the former playing at the Raymor Ballroom and the latter at the Atlantic Beach in Revere are both good bands worth spending an evening listening to. Since he disbanded his Duke University band, Brown has gone in for a sort of pleasantly arranged sweet-swing that's quite good. For example, his theme, "Shang-ri-La," is something worth hearing...
Since October 1 these 22 guinea pigs have lived under a rigid training regimen. Assistant Track Coach Bill Neufeld has had them entirely under his control, and has given them about the same sort of training that middle distance runners undergo. However, there have been no restrictions on their diet...
...connection with incidents like this many alumni have wanted to know why there is not closer supervision of oarsmen. Bock thinks it's great that people are interested in this sort of thing, but he emphasizes that there is a good deal of supervision anyway...
Unfortunately, Betty Grable has to wear a few clothes; in fact, during the French court scenes, she has to wear a hoop skirt. Such superfluous drapery is the worst sort of nuisance to this particular bundle of joy, for gentlemen, those pictures you've seen don't lie. She provides the visual stimulus, while Ethel Merman tickles the erotic funnybone. Ethel could put over a song to a deaf mute and teach the facts of life to a Trappist monk by gestures alone. And also, there's Bert Lahr, who seems to have brought the Lahr leer...