Word: whoa
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Whoa Bessel! Holt your bosses. Wood you Alter your plans so there'll be no Stahl'n around? You'd Lovett? Oh Kaye but no fair to Heckel and no Hazen. Make it even Stevens...
...saxophonists swung into "Honey-suckle Rose." "Whoa-boy," yelled Fats, "the joint is jumpin'." He explained this expression by saying that it meant a Harlem night spot crammed with well-liquored joy-seekers, with a swing band jammin' it. He further explained that the Big Apple, which he is featuring on the RKO-Boston stage with his band, originated not in the South, but right in the Savoy ballroom in New York City...
Birthday. U. S. Attorney General Homer Stille Cummings, 67; in Washington. Said he: "Time pays no attention when I say 'Whoa...
...Whoa, there! Wait a minute! What's this about the Noel Coward doings being the "first smash hit of a middling season" [TIME, Dec. 7]? What about Stage Door! What about Tovarich! I'll grant that the season has been even less than middling and the crop of flops has been a bumper one, but since first they opened both of these plays have been complete sellouts. Stage Door has never fallen below $19,500 a week at the Music Box and if that isn't a smash hit my name is Ivan Ivanovitch...
Sirs: I appreciated immensely "Whoa-ho-ho-ho-ho-ho," and have found ample opportunity to quote the impressions of "Swing." However, there is another term that eludes definition-''Corn." Being a pseudo-musician, I have glibly and authoritatively used it without a quaver. But at last one malicious person demanded a translation, and I was pretty well stopped. . . . STEVE HARRISON...