Word: cha
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Song of the Woodman" ("What do we chop when we chop a tre-e-e? Buckets for the well, poles for American Tel. and Tel. . . . The better mouse trap, the movie mag, the mast to hoist our country's flag . . . that's what we chop when we cha-ha-ha-hop a tree"). Submarine D-1 (Warner Brothers). Behind an array of such box-office buoys as sailors named Butch, Sock and Lucky (Pat O'Brien, Wayne Morris, Frank Mc-Hugh), Warner Brothers demonstrate the advances that have been made in undersea safety since the disasters that...
Unexpectedly, the 100% black Africans did their best cavorting in Stravinsky's 100% Slavic opus. In the Bacchanalian Children of the Earth (music by Negro "Composer Reginald Forsythe) the attempted emulsion of ballet technique and hot-cha failed to mix. St. Louis Women (music by famed W. C. Handy) was straight hot-cha, and might have been done better at the Cotton Club. Encouraged by first-nighters' applause, softspoken, boyish-faced von Grona and his blonde wife Leni decided that their Negro ballet had a great future...
...Shrapnel Swing." In San Francisco arrived last week Shanghai's most exuberant refugee, Miss Therese Rudolph, who says she went unscathed through the first Japanese bombing of the International Settlement (TIME, Aug. 23), has now translated the emotions she experienced into a hot-cha-cha routine, the "Shrapnel Swing" (see cut). In Shanghai last week the 2,527th case of cholera was certified in the International Settlement alone, with 563 victims of cholera dead and doctors vaccinating night and day in efforts to head off an epidemic of smallpox. Conditions were so appalling that Japanese insisted on sterilizing...
Chewing a cigar, shaving, and saying "hot-cha-cha-cha" all at the same time may be hard for modest people, but not for Jimmy "Schnozzle" Durante for that was just what he was doing in his dressing room at the Colonial Theatre last night ten minutes before the curtain for "Red, Hot, and Blue" went up and the Crimson reporter walked...
...there cause there's no stay stuff I nit, it's plenty rugged. As Jimmy adjusted has polo had and took his place on the stage for the first number he concluded. "The song that'll be most popular is my "I'm About To Become A Mother", hot-cha-cha-cha...