Word: contortionist
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...Uncharitable critics termed her contortionist...
...sings far from badly, and together with Miss Wynne Gibson, his irrepressible dancing partner, does some excellent clowning. The chorus is young and enthusiastic, although it lacks that driving rhythm in its steps which only comes with long training. The only sour note in the whole performance is a contortionist dance which is about as grotesque and unsightly an exhibition as this reviewer has ever seen. There is nothing artistic, or even amusing, about the disjointed writhings and ghastly abnormalities of a partially draped figure. Fortunately is does not last long...
Gilda Gray, Follies contortionist: " At my Rockville Centre, L. I., home I entertained 100 children from a nearby bible school. I gave them a picnic lunch; I gave them games and folk dances on the green...
...Hassens, a troupe of Arabian acrobats, gave a very interesting exhibition of pyramid building and whirlwind tumbling. Leon and Company fell below the average of Keith vaudeville and produced nothing at all mystifying. Hyams and McIntyre in "Honeysuckle", Murray and Gerrish in song and dance, and Mankin, a remarkable contortionist, completed the bill...
...test of the custom of having the captains of the major sport teams act as cheer leaders. There can be little question now, we believe, that the tradition is a sound one; and infinitely to be preferred to the proposal of having competitions for leaders of the contortionist style...