Word: swingful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Cabinet changes indicated a calculated swing to the moderate right. Winston Churchill passed over Laborites like ambitious Herbert Morrison, crotchety leftist Sir Stafford Cripps, right-wing Tories like Samuel Hoare (see p. 38). On the whole, Britons approved the shifts, decided that Churchill felt strong enough to swing the country behind his kind of Conservatives now and after...
...this constituted the biggest revolution in U.S. popular musical taste since the "swing" craze began in the middle '30s. Public demand was shifting from Afro-American stomps and blues to a much simpler (and often monotonous) musical idiom that was old when nostalgic '49ers were singing Clementine. Hillbilly music is the direct descendant of the Scottish, Irish and English ballads that were brought to North America by the earliest white settlers. Preserved...
Carol Bruce may swing out all she wants with the Harvard fellas, but there are still a few that love the classics--even though they don't rate a kiss...
...have just read with complete disgust . . . that Captain Glenn Miller has begun to "swing" the age-old, magnificent marches of John Philip Sousa (TIME, Sept...
...annuities. Today he easily makes twice that much a year-at least three pictures at $125,000 each, around $7,500 a week from his broadcasts. He has no artist's denseness in handling cash. When a business agent asked a bank official to try to swing him the management of Hope's affairs, the official remarked: "Bob Hope should be handling yours...