Word: swinging
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...most distressing facial characteristic will doubtless endear her to that large portion of the cinema public which finds physical abnormalities funny. Good songs: Empty Saddles, I'm an Old Cow Hand from the Rio Grande, If You Can't Sing It You'll Have to Swing It. Good shot: Crosby singing a lullaby to Cuddles, while the stowaway goes to sleep in a corner...
Most exuberant exhibitor was one M.M. Pochapin, who displayed a line of kazoos running from ordinary noisemakers at 5? to fancy models at 50?. According to Kazooman Pochapin, his business this year has been booming as the result of political conventions, swing music and The Music Goes 'Round and Around. No pessimist, Mr. Pochapin predicts he will sell $250,000 worth of kazoos in 1936, which would be $236,000 more than he sold last year...
...straw vote the important thing to note is the trend of public opinion. The Gallup polls show a sharp nation-wide swing away from Roosevelt. In only seven States has there been a gain in his popularity. In the Middle West, the real battleground in this campaign, there has been a general subsidence in the pro-Roosevelt sentiment...
Most votes for William Lemke, it is generally agreed, will be votes which would otherwise have gone to Franklin Roosevelt. What worried Democrats last week was the possibility that the loss of even a few thousand votes might lose whole states to Nominee Roosevelt, swing them to Nominee Landon. A more remote chance was that Candidate Lemke might carry one or more states in the doubtful, discontented Northwest, prevent either major candidate from getting a majority of electoral votes, throw the Presidential election into the House of Representatives for the third time in U. S. history...
...items on RKO's 54-picture list announced last week were three musicals-one starring Ginger Rogers & Fred Astaire, two more in which they will appear separately. Singer Lily Pons will appear in an operetta drama called Street Girl, which may try to capitalize on the vogue for swing music. RKO proudly announced that The March of Time which it distributes had spread from 417 theatres to 7,236 in two years...