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Word: jiving (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1940
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...around the 32 bar theme. . . For a girl vocal trio that really swings (Andrews Sisters please note), listen to the Dandridge Sisters with Jinunie Lunceford on Red Wagon and You Ain't Nowhere (COLUMBIA). Trio and orchestra work together smoothly in two fine novelty tunes. . . Frog voiced, one-armed jive artist Wingy Mannone cuts two sides of terrific undisciplined jazz Dinner For the Duchess and Wingy Mannene cuts two sides of terrific undisciplined jazzy Dinner For the Duchess and When I Get You Alone Tonight (BLUEBIRD). Wingly's seat choruses are featured on both sides, and Dixieland fans will...

Author: By Charles Miler, | Title: SWIN | 11/9/1940 | See Source »

ROME--Sharp warnings to Jugoslavia to swing into line with the Rome-Berlin Axis were issued today as Premier Benito Mussolini watched his troops stage a sham battle with Jive shells close to the Jugoslav frontier...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Over the Wire | 10/10/1940 | See Source »

Only Sophomores will be eligible for the editorial, photographic, and business boards but any student of any class can jive on down to his heart's content in the competition for swing columnist 7:30 o'clock in the Crimson Building at 14 Plympton street is the time...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CRIMSON TRIALS START TOMORROW | 10/7/1940 | See Source »

Jitterbugs are not crazy, wrote Animal Lover Ellsworth Jaeger in Nature Magazine last week. They merely carry on ancient dance patterns which lower animals developed eons before man appeared on the earth. Jive-Justifier Jaeger described jitterbug patterns of 16 animals, ranging all the way from "thread legged bugs" to caribou. Samples...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Jitterzoo | 8/19/1940 | See Source »

...Contrasts," his theme song and the best record Jimmy Dorsay has made in some time. This is a really unusual record, beautifully recorded with James playing superb six... "Beautiful Dreamer"-more Stephen Foster by Cana Loma, and well done... "No Name Jive," by Charlie Barnet, shows once again how few ideas are in this band, how noisy ... while on the contrary we elect Woody Horman to the post of "Power House King" for his "Get Your Boots Laced Poppa." If you like tremendous drive-here it is-two full sides...

Author: By Michael Levin, | Title: Swing | 6/12/1940 | See Source »

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