Word: immodest
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...worse than the "up-to-date" girl -- who, in turn, will become "the old-fashioned" girl to a later generation. . . . The Hobart College Herald sums up the arguments of many of the attacks in this thoughtful fashion; "The outstanding objection to the modern dance is that it is immodest and lacking in grace. It is not based on a natural and harmless instinct for rhythm, but on a craving for abnormal excitement". The Dartmouth Jack-o'-Lantern: "We're a dizzy people. The shimmy proves that, without the ghost of a need for further proof". From the New York University...
...would tend to change "sober, intelligent, earnest, religious young men" into "fast, wild, and irreligious" characters; and to make of "virtuous, modest, Christian young women," "young women either insipid and fond of frittering away their time reading love-stories and dreaming about young men, or else bold, unchaste, and immodest." The terpsichorean efforts of this author have probably not been attended with success...