Word: swingful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...prisoners. Once over his astonishment that he is being treated like a human being and given more food than he has probably had for some time, the Jap undergoes a rapid readjustment. Often he becomes a happy-go-lucky prisoner with a passion for horseplay, cigarets, American slang and swing tunes. . . . Each prisoner is allotted five native cigarets daily, but they would gladly trade them all for an American cigaret. Their favorite expression...
Blitz Course. Toughest exercise of all was the 500-yd. blitz course which each trainee must travel alone. First he must vault a fence, then scale an 8-ft. wall, climb another fence, swing across a creek on a hanging rope. As he lands, a dummy Jap pops from behind a tree and must be bayoneted. As the trainee crosses a log another Jap drops near him and must be shot from the hip. Beyond various other obstacles the trainee reaches a climax at a 13-ft. wall atop a plateau, which he must scale with rifle ready...
...score of years, while "kings" of jazz and swing have succeeded each other with Balkan rapidity, a "Duke" has exhibited most of the real majesty from beside the throne. So last week the U.S. music world helped the Duke celebrate his 20th year as a band leader. The American Federation of Musicians officially blessed a National Ellington Week in honor of famed Edward Kennedy ("Duke") Ellington, whose flamboyant black band has played superb jazz longer than any other orchestra in the history of U.S. popular music...
...I.F.W.A. (55 West 42nd St., Manhattan) are 1) "to begin at once preparation for a world organization," 2) to aid Europe's Underground, 3) to block agents and activities of the Axis in Latin America. Honorary board (chairman: Mrs. J. Borden Harriman) includes Mayor LaGuardia, Raymond Gram Swing, Harold Ickes, Viscount Cecil, Thomas Mann, Dorothy Thompson...
...strutting Sharp As a Tack; Vera Zorina does a veil dance; Betty Hutton, during a wild, bruising ride in a jeep, sings a ditty known as I'm Doin' It for Defense; a shapely crew of aircraft workers sing and dance a number called On the Swing Shift. Bob Hope, closeted with an angry man in a shower bath, is good...