Word: tinning
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Nationalism always comes before politics, and a Communist in CRS thinks a French communist is all wet, but he's going to turn brown when DeGaulle starts sending the opposition to the guillotine. Taber is another one who went through Europe like butter through a tin horn and started blowing off about how content and happy everyone was and how they all had sufficient to eat, whilst he warmed the cushion of a bar stool in an officers' club in Germany. You can't go around telling everybody that John Taber represents some people sitting around a cracker barrel...
...Pronounced Nyawlians, never (despite Tin Pan Alley) New Orleans. *Which was abolished 20 years later...
...Tin Pan Alley was making a lot of noise last week, and trying to be quiet about...
Levy, who is married to one of the Andrews sisters, is the man who launched such Tin Pan Alley successes as Beat Me Daddy and Scrub Me Mamma. Said he: "Look, Mr. Stravinsky, I would not like to write a chapter in my book about you -a book called You've Got to Die Before You Write Popular Songs." At first Stravinsky didn't get it. Then Levy reminded him of what Tin Pan Alley grave robbers had done to Tchaikovsky and Chopin. Why shouldn't Stravinsky steal from his own Firebird...
...papers, he denied that he had written the arrangement: he had only okayed it. Stravinsky once wrote an elephant's polka for Ringling Bros, and Barnum & Bailey, and a jazz concerto for Woody Herman (neither had the common touch). He will get double the going Tin Pan Alley rates for Summer Moon, and a 50-50 split on movie rights. Said he: "According to the newspapers, the only reason I wrote this arrangement was to make money. I am very glad if I do make money, but I am very glad also if everyone sings my song...