Word: tinning
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...mention an occasional jam session, with Heifetz rolling out such items as Gut-Bucket Gus and Jim Jives on the piano. As for his popular composing (When You Make Love to Me-TIME, Oct. 21, 1946), Heifetz grins: "I've divorced that fellow Jim Hoyl" (his Tin Pan Alley alias...
...tiny old woman in black, her eyes glazed with grief, accosted Correspondent Low. She was carrying a bottle of raw, homemade brandy, and a glass. She poured the glass brimfull and handed it to Low. "Ghia tin psychi ton makariti! (Here's to the souls of the dead),".she said. Another woman, younger but grey-haired, shouted hysterically: "You Americans must put an end to this war-or leave us to the Russians. Between you we are being crucified...
...Beguine, Just One of Those Things, What Is This Thing Called Love?, Night and Day and I Get a Kick Out of You) ranked last year among the 35 all-time U.S. popular favorites. (The record is matched only by Irving Berlin, and was not equaled by such Tin Pan Alley titans as Jerome Kern, George Gershwin and Richard Rodgers...
Smooching, Etc. In the '30s, a popular Tin Pan Alley song once told the world what happens "when it's dark on Observatory Hill." It still gets dark there, but most of the sex at Madison since the war has been domesticated. One out of every five students is married (prewar: one in 21). In the G.I. generation, sex doesn't even seem to be a favorite bull-session topic...
...much per man-hour as British workers. So the International Labor Office in Geneva reported, following a survey of 32 industries for the period 1935-39. In agriculture and transportation, productivity was about the same in both countries. The U.S. productive edge was highest in automobiles, radios, tires, tin cans, etc., where the "scope of automatic machines is great...