Word: twist
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...other hand if one should remove either from the combination, it's doubtful if the other would survive. I would say it's a problem which like the human equation, must be put in the catagory of abstractions. Basically, music is what bands offer and the peculiar twist which in recent years is evidenced, naturally, is a result of encouragement from the public through the medium of the box office...
...perfectionism which also turned Kaufman into a director. He used to be driven half-crazy seeing other directors maul his lines, twist their meanings, spot a laugh where there was none. He first took over direction in 1925, on the only play he has written by himself, The Butter and Egg Man. He lacked confidence to finish the job, or even his next two or three, but since then he has directed almost all his own shows...
Last week Labor had the look of an errant youngster who suspects that pa was right. A. F. of L. and C. I. O., concluding their respective conventions in Cincinnati and San Francisco (TIME, Oct. 16), were a-twist with statutory cramps. Each had fattened on the Wagner Act; neither was ready to go all the way back to Sam Gompers and confess that what ailed them was an overdose of law. Both blamed the National Labor Relations Board for their gripes, each complained that craven administrators had favored the other. But angry John Lewis and his delegates came close...
...Wiggins, a hotel clerk, was the culprit in The Adventure of the Mother Goose Murders, that week's twist in the Adventures of Ellery Queen, a four-month-old radio hour in which armchair experts assemble evidence from a dramatization of a mystery, spend the last twenty minutes of the show trying to put the finger on the murderer. What happened when the WBBM hose burst was a better clew to the interest of radio fans than any radio survey...
...Webster, and Chu Berry. Three of them are considered the greatest in the world on their instruments, and Ben Webster isn't any slouch . . . Alee Templeton's two records for Victor are two of the most amazing I have ever heard. You try and imitate what occurs when you twist the dial very rapidly on a new radio--sounds silly as hell, but "Man With a New Radio" is still very funny-- as is "And the Angels Sing"--done in the best grand opera tradition . . . Ten years ago: Lobe, the dog, was the star attraction with the Horace Heidt orchestra...