Word: stuffs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...main objection to this band is that it plays a stereotyped style of music, very often not original. By clever buildup and publicity the public has been led to believe that this is the real thing in swing. Shallow stuff like this will lead the listening audience to become very tired of something they have been told was swing, and therefore to condemn it. "Swing is a verb, not a noun." You can play things in swing, but there is no such thing as a swing tune. Without good, sincere swing men in the band, unhampered by stiff, copied arrangements...
...thought that the timing of the referendum favored the opponents of the elections. But the Crimson say, "Byrits timing and by its management, it is calculated to stampede Freshmen into approval of the old system." Does the reference to "its management" mean that the Crimson thinks the Council will stuff the ballot...
...flags and clearly marked on maps given the Japanese last June. U. S. Consul General in Hankow Paul R. Josselyn lodged a sharp protest which the Japanese did not immediately answer. But the appalling news about the three raids was that when the planes had dropped their stuff, nearly 3,000 Chinese lay dead...
...this year's Federal expenses. Knowing well that fixed charges of some $2,300,000,000 (for debt interest, Social Security, tax refunds, revolving funds and the like) could not be touched to effect such a saving, Pat Harrison snorted: "I know that a lot of this emergency stuff could be cut to hell...
...kind of speakeasy--swing-easies"--behind sound proof doors? "Joe sent me"--furtive men carrying hot choruses around in black satchels--"Yeah, the straight stuff's here--Norvo, Basie, they're all beatin' it out downstairs"--black trucks being hijacked for rare records--raids on dives where Louis Armstrong is tearing "Dinah" to shreds? We'll probably all end up playing Mickey Mouse piano with Shep Fields...