Word: feather
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Chief members of the Bahama group are "Motorboat,"' a hulking mahogany-colored buck who in one dance wore rainbow-hued feather knickers, and "Pearl of Nassau," a gaudy little darkie who lustily copies the seductive hip-wiggling of Josephine Baker. Attired in scanty draperies and usually accompanied by gourds or tom-tom alone, the Bahama troupe shifted abruptly from sober interpretations of spirituals to the frankly orgiastic frenzy of native Bahaman dances. Against the high yellow paling which divided them from the orchestra their shadows were enormous and fantastic. But in spite of claims that their dances were independent...
...Paris concession, complained a lady attorney named Mary Belle Spencer to Judge Joseph B. David last week, ''lewd and lascivious dances and exhibitions" were being held. Mrs. Spencer was particularly shocked by one Sally Rand, a comely show girl who danced in nothing but a pair of feather fans...
...controls this way & that. Besides jerking the ship about, it strained the controls. Since the robot first appeared, Sperry engineers and airline operators have been busy improving it. Last week the robot was presented again, this time by United Air Lines. Two years of practice had given it the feather-touch of the expert pilot. Instead of jerking the controls by direct mechanical force, the new robot eases them by hydraulic and pneumatic action. Also it is lighter and more compact than the old robot, since it utilizes the same gyroscopes that actuate the artificial horizon and directional gyros...
...unemployed resemble last summer's B. E. F. Typical shots: The President forbidding his Secretary of War to mobilize against the army of unemployed; advising his Cabinet to read the Constitution; insisting on having microphones on the table at a diplomatic conference; signing the Washington Covenant with a feather pen that drops out of his hand as he finishes the last letter...
Author Garnett, like everyone else, calls his heroine Pocahontas ("bright stream between two hills"), does not give her traditional real name Matoax ("snow feather"), occasionally uses her baptismal name, Rebecca...