Word: cabaret
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Rome, Egypt's ex-King Farouk interrupted his leering and prancing long enough to roll into a fashionable nightclub, where he drew up a chair beside an old Manhattan cabaret songstress named Spivy, bellowed duets with her for an hour and topped off the act with a Swiss yodeling version of Don't Fence Me In. Spivy's impression of Farouk's yodeling: "Squeaking in a high falsetto...
...theater of change and conflict. Moreover, in sharp vignettes, Author Lewis shows that the crackle of change in Southeast Asia comes not only from firebrand nationalists and Red fanatics but also from the intellectual bubble gum that the East borrows from the West. At Luang Nakon's leading cabaret, the local version of the Radio City Rockettes wear drum-majorette boots, hussars' hats and nothing else. At the town's boxing matches, the style if not the wording of the billboards is familiar: "Famous, flashy and crashing kid possesses a resolute punch." When a jukebox with colored...
...Crimson Key's annual All-College Weekend begins tonight with events at all of the Houses but Eliot. Dunster and Winthrop are both having Cabaret Dances, while Kirkland an Leverett will present a combined barn dance...
...come to see me, my dear teacher?'" Professor Sato's answer remains his secret, but his conclusion is edifying. "Professors are not made of wood, but are human beings with blood in their veins. Naturally, they are inclined to put their heads into a cabaret once in a while. And even if they don't ... it is desirable that they should be at least rich enough...
...London, Princess Margaret, who usually plays the field in picking her escorts, excited Mayfair society by dating Mark Bonham-Carter, British army hero of World War II, three evenings in a row. What intrigued the self-appointed matchmakers even more was the tune which, by request, a cabaret singer kept repeating: Let's Do It ("Let's fall in love"). On a later evening, Margaret deserted Mark to attend a benefit ice show at London's Empress Hall, was snapped by a photographer as she entered, smiling but without escort...