Word: bovingdon
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Brussels airport last week, Bayeux, the fastest horse in Belgium, was coaxed into a plane. Two hours later, the plane put down at England's Bovingdon Airport to pick up another passenger. The Aga Khan's grey colt Nathoo, winner of the Irish Derby, was taken aboard. The flying horses were U.S.-bound on a forlorn hope: they were going to meet Citation, the greatest race horse...
Engaged. Mayris Chancy, 31, Eleanor Roosevelt's onetime dancer-protegee; and Hershey Surkin, 31, orchestra leader; in San Francisco. She did the Bovingdon glide...
...graceful John Bovingdon is no ballet dancer; an uneasy press has generally described him as a religious, rhythmic, or "monodrama" dancer. Harvard-man Bovingdon (1915, magna cum laude), the baldest dancer since Harald Kreutzberg, toured Russia and the Orient in the 1920s and '30s, wearing a long beard, knickerbockers and sandals...
Breath is everything, says Bovingdon, who took up dancing when he was 33, and ever since has made every motion a dance movement, including shaving, dressing and eating. Said he (Paris, 1929): "Introduce into an ordinary breath the yawn quality. Let this 'yawmzed breath' through its natural partner, the stretch, animate the entire body. This is the 'stylized breath.'" Once he explained: "We are a band groping toward intuitive communication. . . . When you conceive of a community, all members of which are swayed by kindred emotions of awe and wonder, expressing themselves through plastic bodies moving rhythmically...
...John Bovingdon came to be a main economic analyst for OEW no one could quite explain; he had been recommended by Civil Service and "is doing a good job." But Martin Dies, hot on this obviously new and subtle subversion, was not to be deterred. He snorted: "If no action is taken [by OEW], I will bring the matter to the attention of Congress...