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Word: labelling (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1940
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...their way through the novelty vocal, and Bradley takes a swell trombone ride with a tom-tom backing... Johnny Hodges steals the show on Duke Ellington's Warm Valley (VICTOR), a slow, dreamy tune, arrangement of which is remarkably unpretentious. Reverse, The Flaming Sword, says "fox-trot" on the label, but just try dancing to it, and the elaborate rhythmic patterns will have you giving out on the old one-two-three-kick... Lionel Hampton's latest offering features an unusual combination: rhythm section with two guitars, Spanish (Douglas Daniels) and electric (Teddy Bunn). Coupling is Pigfoot Sonata and Just...

Author: By Charles Miller, | Title: SWING | 11/16/1940 | See Source »

...taught in the villages "hidden in the folds of France" as well as in the fine cities of the plain. Here as there, within these whitewashed walls where the noble device of the Republic-Liberté, Egalité, Fraternite-imposes itself on the eyes of all as the glorious label of a regime, she teaches moral cleanliness, courage in action, respect for the given word, tolerance. . . . May those who wrought the last hours of our defeat be forever castigated in the history of our country...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Oct. 28, 1940 | 10/28/1940 | See Source »

...undermining our military security. We may be required for a decade, for a generation, to maintain a gigantic defense establishment. And a nation heavily armed and primed for total war is ripe for fascism, not necessarily an imported German brand, but a home-grown product sold us under the label of "national defense...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: MASTERS OF OUR DESTINY | 9/26/1940 | See Source »

Professor F. O. Matthiessen offers the best possible answer to Bob Strange '41, whose "Daiquiris and Dilettantes" is an echo of the ancient cry of "indifference." This is a label Stange pins on the students and blames on both the faculty and the general mental climate in the "cultural Island" that is Harvard...

Author: By Allan D. Ecker, | Title: LATEST "PROGRESSIVE" DEALS CHIEFLY WITH U. S. DEFENSE | 9/24/1940 | See Source »

...their catch. Oregon finally topped California by a standing offer of $2.50 more than any price California wanted to name. (Apparently chastened, neither side has moved to start a new war this season.) California packers next carried the fight to Washington, asked the Federal Trade Commission for permission to label their tuna extra fancy. Thompson and his friends, new hosts to the albacore, claimed that only their tuna merited such a term. Result: no tuna can now be labeled extra fancy; only albacore can be labeled white meat...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FISHERIES: Fugitive Albacore | 7/29/1940 | See Source »

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