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...Wild Canaries." The Dorseys riffed through the jazz-dazzled '20s under Bandleaders Paul Whiteman, Red Nichols and Rudy Vallee, by 1934 had formed the Dorsey Brothers' Orchestra, within a year hit the bigtime of the big-band era. Then Tommy stomped off the bandstand in a tiff over tempo, truculently hired his own band, by the time (1953) he and Jimmy were playing together regularly again, had made a pile of cash ($900,000 a year at one point) and some fine jazz (Opus I, Well Git It) and swing (Song of India, Marie...
...stand straight at Tiff...
...brief two-and-a-half-hour ceremony following a slight tiff over the direction the bird should face, CRIMSON editors and Lampoon members resolved that the Ibis should face toward 14 Plympton St., rather than toward...
Empty for two years since a tiff over funds between its builder and the University, the Geographic Institute has been selected as the new home of the Mathematics Department...
...might buy a man special privileges, but there was no honest way to earn them. One of the most ironically successful prisoners in the colony was a onetime mutinous soldier who managed to buy himself the job of prison executioner, only to grow absentminded, kill another convict in a tiff and end up on his own guillotine -after being good enough to set the blade himself...