Word: tidal
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Greene's clinic had to clean up was the havoc created among the wartime generation by the song K-K-K-Katy, which apparently started countless hundreds stuttering involuntarily. Then along came the Three Little Fishies, with a threat of a new generation of baby talkers. Against this tidal wave Dr. Greene could do little, but last week he set out to head off a "brand-new piece of villainy" before it gets too far. In a letter to 165 U. S. radio broadcasters, Dr. Greene protested vigorously against a tune entitled Stuttering in the Starlight.† It goes...
...radicalism is neither a coherent philosophy nor a unified political movement. There is not even a united front. Communists and Socialists, Lovestoneites and Trotskyites are engaged in endless guerilla warfare. Because one section of the radical movement supports Stalin, the whole liberal and radical melange is threatened by a tidal wave of reaction...
...jazz, included a solemn, bespectacled clarinetist named Benny Goodman, a shockheaded, galvanic drummer named Gene Krupa, a rangy, adolescent trombonist with an Iowa accent named Alton Glenn Miller. As the years went by, and hot jazz built up from a provincial ripple to a national tidal wave, Clarinetist Goodman rode to shore on its crest and was crowned King of Swing...
...General Frank Murphy's "smart boys," Harold Rosenwald, announced that the Federal Grand Jury would immediately start hearings. Earl Kemp Long kept mum. But he and all Louisiana were aware that only Earl's boss, Mayor Robert S. Maestri of New Orleans, still remained untouched by the tidal wave that in four months has washed up nearly every major figure in the old Huey Long machine...
Like German, Irish, English immigrants, freedom-hungry Poles came to the U. S. in flight from oppression-after their army's ill-starred revolt against Russian domination; to escape the knout of Tsar Alexander II; in a tide in the '80s; in a tidal wave in the 15 years preceding World War I. Greatest concentration of Poles in the world today is Chicago's 500,000. Other great centres: Detroit, Buffalo, New York...