Word: clogging
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Originally one of vaudeville's "Willson Sisters," Mrs. Millicent Willson Hearst, mother of five sons, sumptuous hostess, (Palm Beach, California, New York, the Continent), philanthropist, landlady of smart Manhattan apartments, dabbler in English magazines (Nash's), is the daughter of Comedian George Willson, clog dancer, once famed as "George Leslie" for his Negroid dance "Mule in the Sand." now opulently retired, addicted to the stovepipe...
...Aged 10, he dove into Annette Kellerman's tank. Aged 12, he held eggs for the magician Thurston. For a year he went to military school in Atlanta. During the War he served in the Navy, then became a traveling tobacco salesman. Returning to Richmond he did a clog dance in a home talent show directed by Chicago professionals. They offered him a job coaching similar productions; he accepted...
...system of punishing liquor law violators. Rejecting proposals to increase the U. S. Judiciary, to establish inferior or "police" courts, the Commission suggested a modified use of existing courts. Its purpose was to get around the "cumbersome procedure of indictment and trial by jury" for petty offenders whose cases clog the courts. The Constitution calls for indictments and jury trials for "infamous crimes." The Supreme Court has held that offenses punishable by less than a year in jail are not "infamous crimes," require no indictment or jury trial. The Jones Law making all liquor violations felonies ("infamous crimes") though explicitly...