Word: cariocas
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...eats too many rarebits and dreams she is dancing with her handsome doctor in slow motion. At a country club dance, Astaire and Rogers startle the patrons by dancing the Yam, no more senseless than the Big Apple, but suffering from the same fault as the out-of-date Carioca and Continental : it looks too hard for the general public and too easy for Astaire and Rogers. Astaire at last drops all pretense of being a psychiatrist and hypnotizes Ginger by the plain old-fashioned method of waggling his fingers; whereupon they dance once more and everything turns...
...Egmont" Beethoven *The Flight of the Bumble-bee Rimsky-Korsakov *"Cavalleria Rusticana," Fantasia Mascagni *"Peer Gynt" Suite Grieg Morning Mood--Anitra's Dance--In the Hall of the Troll King *Ave Maria Bach-Gouned *Polovetzkian Dances from "Prince Igor" Borodin *"Danube Waves," Waltzes Ivanovici *Prelude in G minor Rachmaninoff *Carioca Youmans...
...follow the account of the race at 3 p. m. with the departure of the Queen Mary (see p. 17) at 3:15, the field got away smoothly. On a track baked rocky hard, following the Aga Khan's instructions, Jockey Smirke rode a waiting race. First Carioca, then Mrs. James Shand's Thankerton took the lead. Coming into the straightaway, big. grey Mahmoud, whom over-skeptical bookmakers, considering him a mere sprinter, had rated at 100-to-8, began to run. He crossed the finish three lengths ahead of Taj Akbar, most highly favored...
...correspondents trumped up a story that the King had asked his eldest son not to dance the rhumba or carioca at the State Ball this week in Buckingham Palace. On the program, however, were only polkas, waltzes and fox trots, including Sweetie Pie, I'm on a See-Saw, and An Old Lullaby, rendered from 10 p. m. to 1 a. m. by the Royal Artillery Band...
...Ramon Perez, "we have moved to the power station on Mixcoac Hill. We shall continue to broadcast without food or sleep until the Ericsson Telephone Co. pays us 13,000 pesos for three months' back pay! We represent 62 Station XEAL employes! The orchestra will now play 'Carioca...