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Word: breakaway (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...CROSBY AND MR. MERCER (Decca,). Last June, when the genial Westwood Marching and Chowder Club (North Hollywood Branch) put on its second Breakaway Minstrel Show, the Olio was enlivened by " 'Lasses' (Molasses) Mercer and 'Chittlins' (pig or calf intestines) Crosby in an erudite analyseration of swing." The "analyseration" was sung to the music of the 1920's famed duet Mr. Gallagher and Mr. Shean, new words by Lyricist Mercer (Cowboy From Brooklyn, et al.). The summer's most amusing ditty gets more amusing when Crosby explains to Mercer that jazz is merely old-fashioned...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: September Records | 9/12/1938 | See Source »

...scoring let up in the second and third periods, but two minutes along in the final frame, the Hulse-to-Willetts combination scored again. Then Hulse added another o a quick breakaway from the boards. Exeter retaliated on a drive by Dan Stuckey, Red and Gray center...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: 1941 PUCKSTERS EDGE EXETER AT ARENA, 6-5 | 2/10/1938 | See Source »

Perhaps all of these similarities will make Kirkland individualistic. At least, it may be hoped that they are a symbol of the fact that the Houses are not a complete breakaway from what was useful and worth keeping in the Harvard of the Past...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE OLD WORLD AND THE NEW | 11/14/1930 | See Source »

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