Word: humping
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Chicago society leader, had its first performance last week in Philadelphia in the ballroom of the Bellevue-Stratford Hotel, under the auspices of the Philadelphia Music Club and the Philadelphia Operatic Society. The libretto by Elia Wilkinson Peattie tells the story of Massimilliano, a poor jester with a great hump for a back, who loving a great lady leaves a kiss on her hand and dies. Philadelphians liked hearing an opera in English, welcomed the efforts of Composer Freer, politely, cordially...
...haughty ones, spreads his smile. Last week, while he stood displaying his buttons, a taxicab snarled down the street and stopped before him. Doorman Johnson helped two people out, waited for the taxi to move along. Its driver, one Edward Cohen, seemed inclined to loiter, to dawdle. "Hump yo'self, Jew boy," said Doorman Johnson...
...Louis Municipal Theatre last week. Dignity was the keynote. There was no saxophone in the orchestra, nor any instrument with a belly for giggling, or a ribald larynx. Tenor Forest Lament lifted up his voice impressively. An audience of some 9,000 who had come to catcall, hump their shoulders and shuffle their feet, went off to their homes or their cabarets feeling- some of them-that they had been cheated...
...instruments that stay up late, every night, in the back rooms of cafes, in the smoky corners of third-string night clubs, till their keys are yellow, and their tone is as hard as peroxided hair. Gershwin's fingers found a curious music in them. He made it hump along with a twang and a shuffle, hunch its. shoulders and lick its lips. Diners applauded. "What's the name of that tune, honey?" asked a lady of Gershwin one night...
...Dillon, the Indian player who had the ball, passed the successive five yard lines and the audience defected the hump on his back, the rolling roar of laughter sounded like the incoming ride on a rocky coast