Word: valhalla
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...killed some day by a hit-run driver on a pedestrian crossing while the lights are in his favor. . . . His sense of discipline would be satisfied (for didn't the green light order him to go?) and his suppressed love for the tragic, his eternal longing for Valhalla, would be satisfied too (for did he not die a martyr for all public traffic ordinances, laws and regulations he loves best...
...Jazz. There were good men on the bandstand: Saxman Bud Freeman; cocky, stocky Trumpeter Wild Bill Davison, who blows the horn out of the side of his mouth; zoot-suitish Clarinetist Joe (Little Sir Echo) Marsala, Drummers Dave Tough and George Wettling-all members of ragtime's Valhalla (Chicago branch) who have kept on playing jazz the old way, even after their pal Benny Goodman called it swing and made it a million dollar baby. There were no music stands or orchestrations to be seen at Eddie Condon's. "That's for organized slop," Eddie said...
...Only Way. These 20 strangely dissimilar men in Nürnberg's dock had been drawn together by the forces that shaped Germany after World War I and by Adolf Hitler. For all the German people knew or cared last week, Hitler was in hell or in Valhalla. Nor did they care about the 20 or their punishment. In Berlin, where Allied loudspeakers relayed the trial news in public squares, most pedestrians did not even stop to listen. In a Berlin poll last week, Grete Schweinchen, a social worker, expressed a widespread German reaction: "It's carrying...
Last week this old tongue twister, with new and even less intelligible lyrics, was the fast-climbing No. 2 seller in Billboard magazine's poll of record sales. It was well on its way to join Mairzy Boats and the Hut Sut Song in the jabberwocky Valhalla of the jukebox. Twenty-nine-year-old Ar kansas-born Jo Proffitt had changed the Chinaman into a chick, and called it Chickery Chick. She sent the lyrics to Tin Pan Alleysmith Sidney Lippman, who added some new notes. Now it describes a chicken who got bored with saying "chick chick...
...which A. & P. has been fighting with the U.S. Government became front-page news again. Last week A. & P. and its public relations firm of Carl Byoir & Associates were sweating through a federal trial in Danville, Ill., charged with violation of the Sherman Antitrust Act. John Hartford, home in Valhalla, N.Y., sweated through a golf game, spluttered: "I'll have to talk to my lawyer...