Word: americanize
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...labor troubles were by no means confined to the Communist-led strike at Gastonia and its aftermath, the Charlotte murder trial (see above). At the Blue Ridge foothill town of Marion, an-other textile strike, directed by the conservative United Textile Workers of America, an affiliate of the American Federation of Labor, "went rough" last week, led to the summoning of National Guardsmen...
Fortunately, all this was not billed, like most of Author Cohan's opera, as "An American Comedy." George Cohan was born in 1878 on July 4. He has emphasized this accident ever since by waving the U. S. flag whenever possible. This irritating propensity, together with his blatant assurance, are the most disagreeable qualities in a man who is otherwise a shrewd and skillful playwright, a mime whose side-of-the-mouth technique with songs or wisecracks has made him a success in an almost infinite number of "American comedies," from Little Johnny Jones to The Merry Malones...
...dancer was Agnes Boone, onetime performer with Ruth St. Denis and Ted Shawn's Denishawn Dancers. The rest were dancing masters and mistresses from all over the country who form the American Society of Teachers of Dancing. For 51 years members of the Society have convened annually, usually in Manhattan, to sit in judgment on the dance, to review old dances, see and invent new ones...
...Elected second vice president of the society was Adolph Newburger of Manhattan, whose claim to fame is that he taught the Charleston 20 years before it became popular. He denies it originated among South Carolina Negroes. It was, he says, one of the steps in his stage-dance, "The American Beauty Rose," danced more than 15 years...
Since the American people hate me I will not say anything to an American reporter...