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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Chicago convention of Midwestern Dance Masters told about and demonstrated two graceful midwestern dances, the "Sorority Sway" and "Sea Gull Waltz"; also a choppy one called the "Chug."

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Dance Masters | 9/9/1929 | See Source »

At West Point, Dance Master Vizay is not popular. The cadets, though they like dancing with girls, think there is something sissified about taking dancing lessons. Their dancing uniform is a white shirt, grey trousers, black belt.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Dance Masters | 9/9/1929 | See Source »

So tired that they had mostly ceased to curse, 400 disgusted correspondents from 30 countries waited morosely, one chill midnight last week, in the dank stone courtyard of the Palace of the Counts of Holland. They had had only sandwiches for dinner. So had Chancellor of the British Exchequer Philip...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INTERNATIONAL: Snowden's Slice | 9/9/1929 | See Source »

Tense with expectation, the correspondents in the courtyard began to sense that the bitter, three-week fight of crippled Chancellor Snowden to get for Britain a larger slice of the German Reparations "spongecake" (TIME, Aug. 19 et seq.) was all but won. From midnight on the Continental powers steadily though...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INTERNATIONAL: Snowden's Slice | 9/9/1929 | See Source »

Another British puppet, paradoxically more potent than his elder brother Amir Abdullah, is King Feisul of Irak, inventor of a special headdress named after him. Of all the Arab lands in the Near East, melancholy King Feisul's seemed the least perturbed about Jews, though one band of Iraki...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Islam v. Israel | 9/9/1929 | See Source »

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