Word: throwaway
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Fats doesn't like swing. He says it's going into "a modernistic throwaway." "Jus' give me something sofe, something sweet, something sentimental," he whispered. The latest thing, though, is the swing waltz. He heard one in Iowa that was "a killer...
...vaudeville union, marred the New York premiere of The Governor's Son, Cohan's first musical comedy, in 1901. But after that nothing stopped him. When critics belabored his offerings, when editorial writers fumed at his famed flag-waving act, Cohan began publishing The Spotlight, a weekly throwaway. "Week after week I'd go after them," he recalls. "Week after week they'd come back at me. They slipped me at least a million dollars worth of free newspaper advertising." In 1904 he went into partnership with Sam Harris. They married the Nolan sisters of Boston...