Word: charlestoned
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...popular not so very long ago. Menjou's gallant courtesy in the latter part of the picture comes as near to wistful romance as a King very well can. So there you are. But, oh, yes, these is Bessie Love too, who does a very jazzy version of the Charleston, and Oscar Shaw whom we haven't seen since the failure of "One Kiss." The vaudeville is an inspiring but reasonably successful version of the melting pot theme. You've seen it all somewhere before...
...worst fate possible in store for the sleepers. It was recalled, however, that a marine of the White Court detail was court-martialed in June for refusing to bathe in the untepid bay near White Court, that his ablutions are now performed in the Navy Prison at Charleston, Mass...
...children's parties, to whose rhythm plump little girls have danced with skinny little boys through generations of summer afternoons while pink palms grew moist and socks crept slowly down to form a wad at the heels of minute dancing slippers? Not at all. The dance was the odious "Charleston," condemned by all dancing masters last year, now adopted in deference to popular taste, after vast modifications. No flourish of trumpets attends its innocent pattern. Dancing masters stand up straight; they do not lift their toes from the floor, or walked pigeontoed, box-angled, snake-hipped; 45 degrees...
...equal importance, a telegram from Mrs. Ella O. Guilford of the Women's Peace Union denouncing "theatrical advertising in which the sentiment of womanhood Was outrageously exploited for the sake of the Ziegfelds." A group of chorus girls from Ziegfeld's Louie the 14th had danced "the Charleston" on the steps of the City Hall in Manhattan in the interests of a recruiting drive for the U. S. Army...
...from Hades." Arabia Felix and The Tower of Genghis Khan are old opiates. He is a man for hot color-read Whim Alley; and sweet peace-see Old Meadows. If there are full-stature poets in the U. S., and it is demonstrable that there are, Hervey Allen, young Charleston, S. C, schoolteacher, is well to the fore in their company...