Word: trended
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Military Millinery. In Darkest Africa, the trend in witch-doctor millinery was to the modern warfare motif...
Predictable Future. These truths were equally known to Winston Churchill and Anthony Eden; and Churchill and Eden seemed equally as ready as Morrison to face them and act accordingly. The immediate home-front political trend within the United Kingdom, therefore, seemed predictable: Churchill, Eden and the Labor Party will continue their coalition government until the war is won, then Labor will either challenge Churchill's Conservatives for state power, or demand that a Laborite step up to lead a peacetime coalition government of Conservatives and Laborites...
...leading creditor nation, would take on the job. Ambitious young Americans preparing for careers in finance spent a year or so after college in the City of London to pick up the British art and take it home with them. Sons of eminent European families, sensing the trend of power, got themselves apprentice jobs in the statistical and exchange departments of Manhattan banking houses...
...trend at the moment seems to be back to the hot stuff, as Harry James' engagement at the New York Paramount shows. But any relation between the Harry James of today and the Goodman of yesterday is strictly accidental. "Swing," as typified by Harry James today is superficial music, fit only for mass consumption and crowd pleasing. There is none of the taste, imagination, and sincerity that makes jazz worthwhile listening to; there are only the externals. It this column concerns itself with such music, except as a bad example, then the Bookshelf department might as well start reviewing Faith...
...trend at the moment seems to be back to the hot stuff, as Harry James engagement at the New York Paramount shows. But any relation between the Harry James of today and the Goodman of yesterday is strictly accidental. "Swing," as typified by Harry James today is superficial music, fit only for mass consumption and crowd pleasing. There is none of the taste, imagination, and sincerity that makes jazz worthwhile listening to; there are only the externals. If this column concerns itself with such music, except as a bad example, then the Bookshelf department might as well start reviewing Faith...