Word: swinging
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Recently returned from the picturesque Dartmouth Carnival. Don Gahan's flashy jazz band will "swing it" for the first Freshman dance of the new year in the Union at 8:30 o'clock this evening...
Emerging from a two-week's layoff during examination period, the Varsity swimming and hockey teams will swing into action with a bang tonight and tomorrow night respectively when they face the Hanover Indians of the famous Dartmouth Winter Carnival...
...India and Chansonette. Best non-Grofean work was a deeply-felt Negro Heaven of Otto Cesana. The whole concert pleased even pontifical old William James Henderson of the New York Sun, who unbent to write: "Mr. Grofe presents 'paper' music; his orchestra does not consist of swing men, and never is there any attempt to 'frisk their whiskers.' Indeed it must be admitted that a good deal of the time they are just plain 'corny,' but when the notation calls for it they can make a reasonable approach to a jam session...
...logic some time ago when Miss Moore was a more important box-office draw. This version of the endeavor is a heavy-footed musical naively designed to combine the best features of jazz with those of the Viennese waltz. It concerns one Buzzy Bellew (Fred MacMurray), leader of a swing band which, reaching Vienna in a continental tour, ruins the business of the Franz & Elsa Strauss Waltz Palace. In the U. S. consulate, Elsa (Gladys Swarthout), who has gone there to complain about her rival's tactics, meets Buzzy, mistakes him for the consul. Their romance begins when...
...amateur procureurs are planning to obtain an office outside of the College buildings and use that as their administrative headquarters. Some other name than that of Harvard Date Bureau will be thought up between now and the end of the examination period when the business goes into full swing...