Word: bottomly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...play football?" but "Can he dance?" is the question the college girl asks today. No admiring throng of females trails the football heroes from the Stadium. The husky halfback who risks his neck and limbs for his alma mater might just as well spend his time learning the black bottom, as far as the girls are concerned...
...stunning chorus girls from the designs of Divine Providence; and periodic blasts of song. The thing also seems to have a plot, something about a girl from Manhattan slums who became famous in the Folies Bergere. In his most recent Scandals, George White introduced the now virtually incessant Black Bottom. In Manhattan Mary, he supplies a prospective successor-the Five Step. Mr. White himself momentarily joins the cast to exhibit this gyration, recalling days when he was an humble hoofer** for his now greatest rival, Florenz Ziegfeld. This innovation is second only, in importance, to the appearance...
Last year they met and shook hands beneath the bottom of the Hudson River. This year they met and shook hands above the Hudson's surface-two Irish-blooded politicians, neighbors, mutual admirers; Governors Alfred Emanuel Smith of New York and Arthur Harry Moore of New Jersey. Last year's ceremony was to celebrate the opening of the Holland Vehicular Tunnel between lower Manhattan and Jersey City (TIME, Aug. 30, 1926). On that occasion, gold teeth flashing and freckles getting lost in dimples, the Governors had jocularly pushed and pulled each other across the interstate line. Last week...
...many American authors were emigrating to England to live, Mr. Aiken replied that the reason lay in the fact that England is a more intensely civilized country than the United States. "The background of England is infinitely richer," Mr. Aiken went on; "English society is cultured from top to bottom. There is more opportunity for the novelist to draw on human consciousness. The English country-side particularly appeals to the author. In America everything is rough, ready, uncouth, forlorn, and dilapidated. There is a feeling that American civilization is only temporary, to which England's age and historic and literary...
...emptied overnight. Natives found scores of trout, from a pound to five pounds, skittering, burrowing, gasping in shallow puddles in the mud basin. Smaller fish seemed to have escaped by routes which, when geologists found them, showed that the sudden drainage was no miracle. Two crevices in the lake bottom had. opened, presumably by earth contraction during a local drought, emptying Pickett's Lake into the Sequatchie River, a mile away...