Word: dot
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Strip Polka. In Louisville, Paul Johnston left his clubhouse late at night, started home, got slugged, awoke several hours later in a polka-dot dress...
Earl Moran, 53, top-ranking painter of pretty-girl calendars, made answer to his wife's divorce charge that he had gone off to a convention in St. Paul with much-publicized Polka-Dot-Girl Chili Williams. Said he: he had invited his wife, but she wouldn...
...cacophonous String Quartet No. 3 and then played his familiar Transfigured Night, which he wrote in 1899, before he ran off the melodic rails. When Quartet No. 3 was over, the loudest applause came from the sixth row, where lively, gnomelike Schönberg, natty in a polka-dot bow tie, sat with his wife. The audience joined in more enthusiastically after Transfigured Night. Afterwards Schönberg said: "I have to hear my music ten times to understand it myself. It needs frequent hearing...
...confused with Polka-Dot-Girl Chili Williams...
Since time immemorial--or at least since the gate was built--the custom has been to lock it on the dot of six in the evening. At best this was but a feeble gesture toward protecting the Yard, comparable to stopping up one hole in a sieve. All the other gates blatantly proclaim welcome to the crafty artisans of the night. It was only natural that the present inhabitants of the Yard, carrying on the greater part of their social and scholastic activities in the Houses, should request that this custom be temporarily suspended...