Word: cakewalker
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...hand was something else. I think we can all remember when we have to run for a train with a bag weighing something like that. Well, running with a tough bunch of Commandos or Rangers makes running for a train seem like a cakewalk. When the troops go past you and on out ahead like so many gazelles you suddenly find yourself very alone and without much to record...
...later lectures the professor promised to discourse on the cakewalk, ragtime, black jazz, orchestral boogie-woogie, now & then with the collaboration of such great swingsters as Benny Goodman, Louis Armstrong, Artie Shaw, W. C. Handy...
...There is a momentary pause while water and carbon monoxide combine to form methyl alcohol. As the synthesis proceeds the music turns into a syncopated Cakewalk, the dance of ethyl alcohol. . . . The atoms hesitate, swaying and staggering about, intoxicated by the motions they have discovered. . . . The chemist awakens and rushes to the centre of the stage...
...what The Mikado loses on the roundabouts it never quite makes up on the swing. The audience got what it came for only when the Three Little Maids from School strutted what they had learned there, when the Mikado (Edward Fraction) bust out into a cakewalk, when the flowers that bloomed in the spring gave way to a jamboree that had nothing to do with the case, but proved mighty, mighty tra-la. The Federal Theatre boldly moved The Mikado from Japan to the South Seas. It should have been bolder still and moved it, shag and shaggage, to Harlem...
Ever since childhood trips to the U. S. acquainted him with the cakewalk and minstrel shows, German-born Choreographer Eugene von Grona has wanted to bring Harlem and the ballet together. While dancing and directing ballets at Roxy's Theatre in 1935, he explored upper Manhattan, dived into nightclubs. He found their dancers all too light, too sophisticated. "I want them black, black, all Negro," said von Grona. Samuel ("Roxy") Rothafel agreed, said "the blacker the better." Von Grona advertised, offering scholarships, and got hundreds of applications. He picked 20 of the blackest applicants and started to rehearse...