Word: wave
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...clinic had to clean up was the havoc created among the wartime generation by the song K-K-K-Katy, which apparently started countless hundreds stuttering involuntarily. Then along came the Three Little Fishies, with a threat of a new generation of baby talkers. Against this tidal wave Dr. Greene could do little, but last week he set out to head off a "brand-new piece of villainy" before it gets too far. In a letter to 165 U. S. radio broadcasters, Dr. Greene protested vigorously against a tune entitled Stuttering in the Starlight.† It goes...
...neither a coherent philosophy nor a unified political movement. There is not even a united front. Communists and Socialists, Lovestoneites and Trotskyites are engaged in endless guerilla warfare. Because one section of the radical movement supports Stalin, the whole liberal and radical melange is threatened by a tidal wave of reaction...
...send and receive 13 words per minute on the Morse key, know every detail of the construction of his apparatus, and besides that be absolutely up-to-date on the latest radio legislation. There are many rules that have been established for the control of the various short wave bands and unless a "ham" is careful he runs a good chance of losing his permit to operate...
...remembered what musical composition a baby's cry reminded him of (Richard Strauss's Domestic Symphony). Catcher Moe Berg identified Garibaldi's Carbonari. Russel Grouse still thought the football team best suggested by an ocean was C. C. N. Y. (book answer: Tulane's Green Wave). Lillian Gish remembered her Browning better. The board recalled three of Peggy Joyce's four husbands...
...jazz, included a solemn, bespectacled clarinetist named Benny Goodman, a shockheaded, galvanic drummer named Gene Krupa, a rangy, adolescent trombonist with an Iowa accent named Alton Glenn Miller. As the years went by, and hot jazz built up from a provincial ripple to a national tidal wave, Clarinetist Goodman rode to shore on its crest and was crowned King of Swing...