Word: tempo
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...fact, was their first band effort. This record was not only stiff, it suffered from rigor mortis, and here's why: everybody in the band, particularly drummerman Krupa, was playing ahead of the beat. As you play the notes of a melody, it sets up a four-four tempo. Krupa was depending on the ear of the listener, used to hearing four-four tempos from marches and other dance tunes, to remember that tempo; then from the very beginning of the record, the band proceeded to play ahead of this implied beat. Push, push, push, till the record sounds like...
According to your purse. We suggest skin guards as essential equipment inasmuch as every place in the vicinity is going to be jammed. . . Hotel Brunswick-The Marionette Room-tempo is a little faster than some of the other hotel rooms, but still much fun. Dancing is okeh. . . Hotel Lenox-the Blue Train. I have fond memories of the Blue Train after an especially noisy evening. Soft lights and similar stuff made it very pleasant, with good music as an added factor. Recommended as an oasis...
...always plays his "commercial" tunes softly, easily, and with good dance tempo. As far as the swing stuff goes, things like "Parade of the Milk Bottle Caps," "Serenade to Nobody in Particular," and "Hollywood Pastime" are recognized in the trade as a style of program music that Jimmy alone...
...balance by the restraining influence of the "parasympathetic nervous system," the sympathetic system steams up when the body signals full speed ahead. During an attack of angina, a patient shows all the outward signs of "sympathetic overactivity" except one. He perspires, his stomach expands, his heart throbs in violent tempo. But for some reason his coronary blood vessels, instead of expanding, contract. In this perverse, mysterious contraction, believes Dr. Raney, lies the key to the secret of angina pectoris...
Meanwhile upperclassmen huddled in groups to keep warm, and studied in their overcoats. Hot water bottles have been whipped into service, and there has been a run on all available firewood. Student circulation began to rise last night, however, when several radiators in Lowell House dehydrated to the tempo of loud clanks...