Word: cancan
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...dancing, vivid staging. In a ballet school, with costumes after Degas, begins the luckless romance of the ballerina (Kitty Carlisle) and Count Rudolph (Michael Bartlett). In Paris of 1900 the same pair appear as another ill-starred couple, with the ballet converted into Toulouse-Lautrec girls doing a violent cancan. At last, in a contemporary cinema studio, the lovers, as descendants of their former selves, find their happy ending...
...Stevens platform designed to implement this "cancan" motto and get the votes of everybody except Canadian businessmen was a masterpiece of New Deal paternalism. To workers it promised wage-&-hour laws; to farmers. Govern-ment markets for farm products; to the unemployed, a huge public works program. Finally Mr. Stevens promised not only to pay for all this but to pay off Canada's entire national debt in 25 years by Govern-ment exploitation of gold mines and other natural resources...
...loses money, new car and spouse to the all-powerful Man of God. The book reaches a tropical heat-wave climax with Sunday's revival meeting in the schoolhouse, where the inhabitants of Rocky Comfort roll on the floor, beat their heads against the walls and dance the cancan in order to get close...
...pink water. Ruth Page was an alluring young heroine in leg-of-mutton sleeves and a big straw hat. She danced away fleetly with an elderly merchant because his hind pockets bulged with gold. But at the end she was back with her young lover, whirling in a mad cancan. Chicagoans left the opera house marveling at what Dancer Page had accomplished with a comparatively new troupe, marveling at the courage and energy it required to attempt to emancipate opera ballet. After the performance Dancer Page took her first recreation in weeks, went to a champagne supper which Harold Fowler...
...against the sea. "You must either give in or break away. In my 20-odd years at sea I have been "disarmed and stripped naked by her. ... It eats into the heart, it reduces the brain to a sort of pulp." At Alexandria, still only 13. Fearon watches a cancan dance, fascinated, repulsed, wavering. His return a day later results in his catching syphilis. He would drown himself, but he is too weak to leap overboard. The end comes when the captain himself, sympathetic, smothers him in his great coat...