Word: gracefully
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Perhaps the polka, in ceding to the fox trot, has taken with it some of the charm of earlier days. Perhaps the bustle, the soft candle light, and the champagne punch, in fleeing before the straight gown, electrics, and lemonade, have also removed some of the grace that went with the quadrille. Or can it be that the efficiency of nowadays, as exhibited in the change from the graceful bow of invitation to the brazen cut-in, has enabled the present generation to get the same amount of enjoyment out of the dance in less time...
...Murray Pease, Chairman, Miss Martha Head; Andrews Wyman, Miss Rosemarie Wyman; A. S. Phillips, Miss Lois Smith: R. N. Hutchinson, Miss Grace Wilson; R. D. Buck, Miss Janet Gilbert: J. D. Dow, Miss Phyllis Cotton...
...Stearns, Miss Louise Waterman: Dudley Merrill, Miss Jane Noble; G. D. Krumbhaar, Miss Juliet Greene; Cornelius DuBois, Miss Elizabeth Morrow: F. W. Perkins, Miss Elizabeth Brewster: W. C. Fordyce, Miss Priscilla Waterman; J. R. Fordyce, Miss Elizabeth Patterson, W. B. Macomber, Miss Margaret Warner; F. P. Weymer, Miss Grace Weymer; B. R. Taylor, Miss Alice Sherburne...
...William Exton Jr., Chairman, Miss Meriel Woods; K. F. Nash, Miss Catherine Spencer; E. G. Gebelein, Miss Grace Thomas; J. R. Wyatt, Miss Mary Macbeth; J. LaV. Isert, Miss Dorothea Sibley; D. W. Bakeless, Miss Natalie Hebert...
...worst influences in this tendency, he said, is that of the moving pictures. "I have only seen one really worth-while film," he said, "which was one starring the diver, Annette Kellerman. The beauty and grace of her performance could not be equalled outside of the sculpture of classic Greece and yet even this was marred by the taint of realism. Whenever she would strike the water someone behind the screen struck a cymbal to represent the splash...