Word: swing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...occasionally lugubrious. Walter Huston and Beulah Bondi, who are cast as Mr. Stewart's parents, impecunious Ohio settlers, bring dignity and feeling to their parts. A pseudo-historical epic, "Of Human Hearts" has many flaws, but is so sympathetic that one is inclined to overlook them. "Swing Your Lady," on the same bill, is not recommended...
With baseball practice in full swing, 51 candidates for the Varsity and Freshman nines have reported thus far to Coach Fred Mitchell. While the Varsity material appears fairly strong at this date, Mitchell was slightly disappointed with the Freshman prospected...
...Says Swing Can't Be Defined...
Asked whether the college "cats" who have been seen flocking around the bandstand every night really know anything about swing she replied, "I really couldn't say, but they sure do enjoy...
Like many of the leading exponents of swing, she was at a loss to define her art, but Chick came to her rescue. "You can't define swing," he said, "it's something that you feel. You go into a night club, and at first you want the band to play nice and slow. Then you put away a couple of drinks, and you start feeling pretty good, and you want band to get hot and you want to go out there and Suzy-Q and Truck and help the band along. "That's swing...