Word: drag
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...directs them, plays the star roles. When admitting to 27 years she wrote her first play, Sex, for which she was arrested and served ten days on Manhattan's Welfare Island. Of her other plays, Pleasure Man was closed by the police after 3 days' run in Manhattan. The Drag never reached Manhattan. Her most famed play, most famed part was Diamond...
...gathered from this account, and rightly so, that the author has the urbanity of a humorist. But this urbanity, an Addisonian touch of gentility, does not, as might be thought, drag the statements of the writer down to a mere Thetorical smoothness. He does what he sets out to do, and does it with literary excellence...
Meanwhile in the Belgica Capt. Ernest de Muyter (fourtimes winner) with Leon Coeckelbaerg fought lightning, snow and loss of altitude. All ballast gone, Coeckelbaerg slid down the drag rope into a tree to lighten the load, but the bag settled at Adams, Mass., a 435 mi. mark. For the co-pilot's heroism, disqualification was threatened...
...their University Drag, slow fox-trot honors went to a mother & son, Mrs. Anna L. Keenan and Walter Keenan of Philadelphia, who described it as "a sort of Rudy Vallee foxtrot. . . . And don't call it the 'Varsity Drag,' please. It's the University, and a very dignified dance." Principal features are an erect body bent slightly forward and the slow drag of the feet from back to front after each step. Collegiate jiggers will dance it with a slight bend of the knee. Conservatives will do it with more dignity, legs straight...
...more they follow and do not lead. For the Dancing Masters well know now that it is not their fiat that calls the turn in U. S. dancesteps, but such creations as Gilda Gray's Shimmy, Bill Robinson's tapping, George White's Black Bottom, Schwab & Mandel's Varsity Drag, such agencies as Tin-Pan Alley...