Word: swing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...outstanding and in places a profound production is the music. Mr. Berlin's succession of song hits reflect America's changing taste and changing tempo. They are presented here in chronological order, and the history of "jazz" is traced from its noisy pre-war origins, down to the sophisticated swing of today. Happiness, pathos, sentimentality, escapism, the emotions that characterized the years are all there, woven into a curious unity by a composer who has always written for the rank and file. It is pleasant to record that since the picture was first released, the new compositions it contains have...
Outraged, betrayed, dejectedly off to bed last night, the first Friday in years without having read TIME. Brooding thoughts while seeking escape in sleep: Whistler's Mother with eyebrows plucked, lips rouged and fingernails enameled a brilliant scarlet. The Blue Danube in swing. Saint-Gaudens' Lincoln with face lifted, wrinkles erased and character lines obliterated. The legs of a fine old Chippendale piece knocked off and replaced with chrome pipe. The interior of Mount Vernon done over in 1938 night-club modern. The mellow patina of a fine old bronze reliquary burnished away...
When her father left one day to visit his tobacco farm, Lulu Belle slipped Jim the keys. He let out his pal, Bill ("Bad Eye") Wilson. They grabbed Jailer Kimel's gun from his office, commandeered a taxi, bound and gagged the driver, Wilkes Swing, and drove to Godwin's home in High Point for clothes and another...
...voices of politicians grew loud in the land, crowding even swing off the air, radio listeners last week did not hear two opponents debating (but not broadcasting) with poise and dignity from one platform in Marietta, Ohio. Republican Robert Alphonso Taft and Democrat Robert Johns Bulkley had agreed, while fighting for the latter's Senate seat, to hold at least six debates in the good old Lincoln-Douglas tradition...
...atmosphere, the personality of their conductor. Highest admission charge is about $1.75, cheapest 50?. The 50?-tickets admit bearers to a large space devoid of any seats. There, an odd assortment of Londoners amble around the floor, smoke, swap opinions and amateur musical criticism, behave in general more like swing fans at a jam jag than ordinary concertgoers. On some nights the floor is so packed, the air so heavy with smoke and heat that faintings and hurried exits are common. Since the series began in 1895, weed-whiskered old Sir Henry Joseph Wood has conducted every concert. When...