Word: swing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Warner Bros, junior cinemusical company has a picnic with the slapdash, rapid lines, but there is nothing slapdash about the glittering specialties or the skilful, engaging music. Top song and top production number: Too Marvelous for Words. Swing High, Swing Low (Paramount) reveals the effects of outrageous fortune's slings and arrows upon the soul of a sensitive hot-trumpet player. Mustered out of the U. S. Army in Panama, Skid Johnson (Fred MacMurray) is not much better than a guttersnipe when he meets Maggie King (Carole Lombard), a stranded dancer working as a manicurist. Things begin to improve...
Loosely adapted from Watters & Hopkins' play, Burlesque, which ran on Broadway in 1927, Swing High, Swing Low somehow fails to give the spectacle of a wind instrument expert keeping a stiff upper-lip the emotional intensity which it no doubt deserves. Songs like Panamania and I Hear a Call to Arms, by Al Siegel and Sam Coslow, are appealing but hardly likely to be rated as classics by addicts of swing music. Vastly over-ballyhooed by Paramount, the picture's chief virtues are providing pretty Carole Lombard with a few comedy lines almost up to the standard...
...simple matter of mathematical probability. He has done much to propagate the "tidal theory" of the solar system's origin which is probably more widely accepted among astronomers than any other. In this view, some 2,000,000,000 years ago, a wandering star happened to swing close to the sun, from which by its gravitational pull it drew out a long filament of hot matter which subsequently broke up and condensed to form the planets. The energy of motion which enabled the planets to assume orbits of revolution around the sun originated in the sidewise pull...
Professor Harris will open the program next Monday with a discussion of the factors indicating another upward swing in business and market conditions, including in his remarks a survey of various measures that might be taken to avoid another depression after the inflationary period...
...This boundary moved west until it lay some 200 miles inland, bringing warm weather to the coastal States. Quick thaws in this region contributed something to the Ohio floods. Another flood factor was the migration of the Rockies boundary into the Pacific Ocean. This allowed low-pressure centres to swing all the way down the western U. S. before moving east. These centres thus picked up moist tropical air around the Gulf of Mexico, then carried it northeast and deposited the water in the flood valleys...