Word: conga
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...levelheaded daughter who enjoys reading the latest best-sellers (For Whom the Bell Tolls was a favorite), knitting (she hates sewing), and gossipy teas with Margaret and a few girl friends before an open fire at the Palace. Even her revels are circumspect affairs. Once when she led a conga line around the Palace the sentries saluted as the dancers passed. The nightclubs she haunts are the most fashionable, her guests impeccably aristocratic, and a Scotland Yard operative is always on hand to choose a table and clear a path to the ladies' room. Elizabeth is sometimes curt...
David Charnay was sitting in a midtown Manhattan spot last week, tending to his business (interviewing a Broadway character for the New York Daily News) when a friend phoned with a hot tip. There'd been a brawl over at La Conga and-guess who-Peggy Hopkins Joyce was mixed up in it. Reporter Charnay flagged his office and went after it. Rewrite Man Henry Lee got busy at the telephone. Next day their joint story-the kind of story only the Daily News could or would do-ran three columns, a sort of extra dividend that gave...
...week Cugat, who is now a paunchy 46, signed a contract to play an eight-week symphonic concert tour of 50 U.S. cities for $5,000 a night. Top attraction at each concert will be Cugat's own symphonic Latin Suite in three movements (Afro-Cuban, bolero, and conga). If the tour pans out, he plans to give up nightclubs altogether. For the trip, Cugat will add a dozen violins, two cellos, two violas and two basses to his regular nightclub assortment of 32 marimba, maracas, fiddles and horns...
Between warm afternoon showers, thousands of shirt-sleeved Cuban men and cotton-frocked girls trooped down Havana's laurel-hedged Prado. In brazen defiance of the armistice decreed for election week, they shouted the names of rival mayoral and congressional candidates. Sound trucks blared the notes of a conga, then broke out with political exhortations. In the Parque Central, dusky ti-1.trope performers attracted a crowd, then made campaign speeches from their precarious perches. In the sweltering evening, a great neon campaign sign, towed by an amphibious jeep, swam ghostlike along the harbor front...
...strength last week. For eight hours on May Day, Cuba's workers downed hammers, laid sickles aside. While everything in the country stopped but a few trains and trams, members of the Communist-controlled Cuban Confederation of Labor swung past Havana's presidential palace to the conga beat of a hit tune called America Immortal. Their secretary, Communist Làzaro Peña, stood with President Ramón Grau San Martin as he reviewed the parade from his balcony...