Word: swing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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From Bonanza to Reality. Ezra Benson, no politician, knows as well as the politicians in the Eisenhower Administration that the political clamor about the farm situation is dangerous. The farm belt, which could swing the 1956 Presidential election one way or the other, is uneasy. Democrats have been making and will make a lot of political hay out of this uneasiness in some farm areas, e.g., Ohio, Michigan, Iowa, Illinois, and Indiana. But Ezra Benson will not be stampeded. After his conference with the President last week he said firmly: "This Administration, according to the President . . . will not attempt...
...Girl in the Red Velvet Swing [20th Century-Fox). One fine day when the century was young, and men of insight were wondering what the peekaboo waist might lead to. John Barrymore took a chorus girl named Evelyn Nesbit to supper. He ordered a glass of milk, and floating a rose petal on it. murmured seductively: "That is your mouth." Furthermore, he declared. "You are a quivering pink poppy in a golden, windswept space." John was a poor young cartoonist in those days, and all he could pay was compliments, but there were many wealthy wolves on the prowl...
...plays. At the Downbeat, Jay Mugliori calls it "contemporary"; at the Five O' Clock Club, Miles Davis plays "modern", and in The Stable, Varty Haroutunian says it's "progressive." But all play in Boston's warm style. Essentially it is a cross between the hot emotionalism of bebop and swing, and the intellectual coolness of the West Coast...
Last week, still a little breathless, Pietro Nenni returned from a four-week swing through Communist-land. From what he had said to the Marxists and what the Marxists had said to him, it was clear as never before that Nenni was scarcely distinguishable from the genuine Marxist article...
...somebody else would use him maybe, but I can't. So I wait, and then my big fella [Mickey Mantle] gets hurt because he's goin' at half-speed and he's got to bunt once in a while because he can't always swing from his heels. Especially when he hits the ball to either side of the other fella [the opposing pitcher] he's sure to get on because nobody can catch him. But he [Cerv] wants to hit now and I give him his chance to play center and he does...