Word: swingful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...minutes from Berlin's dead center is a slice of Long Island or California civilization-the American colony. This week the local baseball season got into full swing; Tempelhof airbase invited all American girls to the "Stateside Stomp" in the Skyrider Ballroom; everything from keel boats to canoes and kayaks is skimming the Wannsee's smooth, sunny waters. This is little America, APO 742-A, including bingo, jukeboxes, dog shows, fashion shows and horse shows...
Odessa hadn't caught up with bebop yet, but it already had too many low American habits to suit Pravda. "How can we get rid of swing and jitterbugging," Pravda demanded to know, "when . " . vulgar melodies [like] Pussycats, Crazy Girl and White Moth sound in the public places . . . pampering low-grade tastes . . . while folk and real ball dances are unavailable...
...Hammocks. Like the accompanying text, the 501 photographs in this book embrace everything under the sun-including whole centuries of kitchen sinks. Looking at one another with some surprise are McCormick harvesters, Roman baths, barber chairs, egg beaters and tricycles. Victorian maidens swing gently in new-fangled hammocks-oblivious of a conveyor-beltful of hogs swinging equally gently toward Swift's and Armour's hams...
...weeks ago, Big Jim rattled the teeth of the conservative Pennsylvania Manufacturers' Association with a suggestion that industry ought to cut prices (TIME, March 8). Then he served blunt notice on the Old Guard that he would swing as much of the state's 73-man convention delegation as he could behind a progressive Republican presidential candidate...
...Willkie bandwagon, and then having to chase it down the road. Jim Duff was not going to make that mistake this time. Political dopesters in Harrisburg heard that arrangements had been made for Alabama to yield to Pennsylvania on the critical ballot. Jim Duff might be the man to swing the convention...