Word: charleston
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Slender nematode worms, three to four inches long, breed in the lymph spaces of the afflicted. Their larvae swarm through the blood stream. The kind prevalent in the West Indies and as far north as Charleston, S. C., crowd to the internal organs during daylight. At night they wriggle among the blood corpuscles until they reach the blood vessels close to the skin. Along comes a mosquito. It sucks a sleeper's blood, and with it some filaria larvae...
Outstanding 1929 Carnegie medalists were aquatic heroes. Two silver medals were awarded. One went to Miss Barbara H. Miller, 22, Charleston, S. C. student. for braving an ocean undertow which had vanquished several men, to rescue a drowning woman. The other, with a monthly death benefit, was awarded to the widow of Edward R. Grundy. At Miami Beach. Fla., Grundy swam out to a drowning woman, clutched her, battled the undertow desperately for 20 minutes. When another swimmer reached them, Hero Grundy was dead...
Yellow-haired Frances Williams sings the show's best song, Bottoms Up, in her slithering, urgent voice. To this ditty Producer White dances a strenuous routine (successor to his Charleston, Black Bottom). The carnivals of Europe have inspired huge, mechanical grotesques which loom now and then behind the players - a shaggy Beast rolls its head and eyes while Beauty pirouettes; an enormous dummy jazz band swoops and sways. Meanwhile Willie Howard talks Jewish, and the Abbott dancers from Chicago tap dance on their toes. Ousted from the bed of a married woman, a clown exclaims : "Believe...
Last week Tapper Newsome expertly tapped for the delegates. He combines the tap with the Charleston, the Black Bottom, the fox trot. He is working on a combination tap and flicker which, he says, should be a rage...
...Charleston. Elected second vice president of the society was Adolph Newburger of Manhattan, whose claim to fame is that he taught the Charleston 20 years before it became popular. He denies it originated among South Carolina Negroes. It was, he says, one of the steps in his stage-dance, "The American Beauty Rose," danced more than 15 years...