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Word: exhibitionistically (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1929-1929
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...criminal but against which there is no Paris law. One evening at the opera, Tenor Franz was in the midst of a favorite aria when out upon the stage from her box climbed a young person later identified as one Sylvia Peres of Italy. Apparently overcome by an exhibitionist impulse, she threw herself into a vigorous and not inept display of fancy dance steps. Tenor Franz stood speechless. The orchestra stopped, gaping. Mlle. Peres danced on with abandon, coming to a climax with one heel on Tenor Franz's shoulder. The police, unable to arrest her, lectured her severely...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Indianapolis Dancer | 11/25/1929 | See Source »

...dance, lancers, waltz, one-step. For years he discountenanced the two-step. Frigidly he frowned on the fox trot when it appeared, though now he says: "It is just as possible to dance a fox trot with dignity and propriety as it is to dance a waltz." He abhors exhibitionist Negro dancing, believes it to be fit only for the stage. He admits that the waltz, one-step and fox trot constitute a trinity whence all variations come, and that the real arbiters of dance fashion are popular music writers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Dance Masters | 9/9/1929 | See Source »

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