Word: swipe
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Notes between the notes: Word has slipped through that Benny Pollack, famous old Dixieland band leader, has sued Benny Goodman, Bob Crosby and various other people for swiping some of his arrangements, "Bugle Call Rag" being mentioned specifically. This may or may not be true. But, if this sort of suit is going to be the fashion, most of the country's better band leaders are going to end up behind the bars. It's been the custom for sometime to swipe ideas from everyone on standard tunes such as "Bugle Call Rag"...Artie Shaw has been sued for another...
There is no end of possibilities for new and starting attacks given such human material. The quarterback could swipe the other team's signals and the boys would always be able to steal a march on the enemy. With a thefty 200-pound line and a sly backfield, the boys could carry the pilfer a touchdown every time...
...first tee of a Southampton, L. I. golf links, former Governor Alfred Emanuel Smith, whose form is picturesque, took a vicious swipe at the ball, missed, sprained his left foot...
...heat better than human eyes can, made it possible to turn out steel with Bessemer rapidity but of a uniform quality comparable to that of the open-hearth product. The J. & L. researchers guarded their secret vigilantly, declared darkly not long ago that two other companies had tried to swipe...
Last week, Malin Craig, who reaches the mandatory retirement age of 64 next year, took his biggest swipe yet at general age levels. Upon his recommendation, the President promoted Brigadier General Henry H. Arnold.* 52, to be major general and chief of air corps; Brigadier General William H. Wilson, 60. Coast Artillery, to succeed retiring Major General Fox Conner as commander of the First Army; Brigadier General Robert McCandlass Beck Jr., 59, an assistant chief of staff, to succeed retiring Major General Frank McCoy. Also upped were seven colonels to brigadiers. Average...