Word: leading
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...about almost everybody in the business. Whether it is true or not, Bunny is going to be worth hearing. As for Mr. Crosby, this is a band that, besides doing most things extremely well, plays slow blues in a way that is worth hearing. Most of the good lead men in the band are from New Orleans, and therefore playing good blues is practically second nature to them. More about this fine bunch next week when a little more space is lying around...
...plan for a war in which "mankind might derive a biological benefit" requires that the minimum age limit for service should be set at 45 years. Professor Hooton also adds that he would send out the statesmen and diplomats that make wars "to lead reconnoitering parties, as did the late General Werner von Fritsch...
...sort of added attraction, is some thought-content,--not much, it's true, but some. The characters of Madison Breed and B. J. Wickfield are drawn on a slightly higher level than the broad, low, and beautiful plain of sex, even though they make frequent excursions downward. The girl-lead, Cindy Lou, while undergoing ordeal by hell-fire and brimstone in the process, eventually lands on the top of the heap in the final scene, showing that Miss Booth may have some surreptitious respect for her and the things she stands...
Dudley's three spins and no defeats give it an undisputed hold on the lead position, while Kirkland, with two wins and a tie, has a half game edge over Winthrop's Puritans, winners of two games...
...numerous influences of dance music, both direct and indirect. The last section of Debussy's "La Mer", for instance, employs the rhythms of jazz in an unmistakable fashion. But more interesting than this are the scherzo of the Beethoven Third Symphony and D'Indy's "Istar" Variations. These forms lead one to a consideration of an aspect of the relationship between popular art and "intellectual" music which bears on the whole development of the large conventional instrumental forms...