Word: hugs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...carrying Gloucester up from the Australian battle cruiser Australia which had just delivered him safely home to England. After an absence of seven months, Gloucester's respectful first move was to try to kiss the Queen-Empress' hand but his mother advanced, welcomed him with a majestic hug & kiss. That night King George conferred upon Gloucester the grand cross of the honorary order of St. Michael and St. George...
Booker T. Washington stands at Tuskegee. Minstrels sing spirituals. The pageant becomes modern Harlem medley. Irene Castle McLaughlin explains her old-time dances, the "Bunny Hug," the "Hesitation," the ''Maxine." A chorus dances them. Orchestra Leader Noble Sissle recalls the War with his ''On Patrol in No Man's Land." Bill Robinson does a tap dance, brings down the house, encores again and again. W. C. Handy leads his "St. Louis Blues." All 5,000 voices break into a tremendous chant...
...Manhattan, is publicly photographed in negligee in the embrace of a grinning stranger. Eadie retaliates in kind when old T. R. is about to sail on the Aquitania for an international gathering. In a split second she appears in his cabin in her underclothes, gives him a mighty hug while press photographers do the rest. All this feverish by-play ends in a curious reconciliation scene. Eadie gets drunk. To sober her up, young T. R. Paige pops her under a shower, proposes for the second time...
...Bishop," cried one Ada Piercy, "I said I'd hug you if you were acquitted...
...Hug away!" ordered Bishop James Cannon Jr. of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South...