Word: swing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...music will all be read at sight, and it is hoped that everyone taking part will be able to "swing" as simultaneously as possible...
Jazz, blowsiest of the arts, has been disgracefully lax about keeping her barrelhouse in order. The master recordings of hundreds of notable numbers, played by inspired but informal groups of musicians in obscure studios, have been lost or destroyed. Copies of records made in Swing's golden age, the 19203, by bands like the Wolverines, Friars Society Orchestra and New Orleans Rhythm Kings, are therefore as rare as Gutenbergs and, to lovers of America's native music, as valuable...
...Player Leon Bismarck ("Bix") Beiderbecke's effortless glissando, accompanied by various old bands, was to be heard sprinkling graceful, spontaneous melody through all twelve sides of the set. Two non-commercial enterprises, the Hot Club of France and the New York Hot Club, have repressed a few scarce swing classics for their members. But the commercial record companies are chiefly interested in making and selling new records, and the hot clubs are composed of amateurs uninterested in administrative detail. Wide open, therefore, was the place which a brand new Hot Record Society undertook last week to fill...
...high as in 1913, twice as high as in the 19205, the report observed: "Whatever may be said for the policy of public works in times of Depression, there can be no question about the undesirability of increased government outlay once the expansion of business is in full swing, for then there is the danger that extra stimulus may produce an unhealthy boom. . . . Considering the phase that has been reached in the business cycle, this increase comes at a wrong time and tends to stimulate wrong trades— namely, those that already are benefiting most from general recovery of business...
Flat feet, according to Dr. Schwartz, are usually due to malalignment of the heel bone with the tibia (larger of the two long bones in the lower leg). Side swing of the heel throws all the muscles and tendons of the foot out of balance. "Since the tendons act as slings for the 26 bones of the foot," reasons Dr. Schwartz, "those bones then have a tendency to slip out of their anatomical arrangement...