Word: jig
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...plea for the destruction of stone walls and high hedges so that driving townspeople could enjoy country yards and gardens. A resolution favoring more emphasis on international news in rural newspapers passed unanimously. An lowan chorus chanted folk songs. An Amerindian woman presented a marionette show, Irish delegates a jig. President Watt demanded that Country Women ''shed that inferiority complex," symbolically urged the overturn of the present status in which the "cook" (woman) is dependent on the "gardener" (man). "Make the gardener the servant of the cook," thundered she. Michigan's Dr. Dora H. Stockman read...
Next morning, after a breakfast of sausages, hot rolls, honey and coffee, came a spasm of postcard-writing. One Hans Hinrichs proudly got off 200 in jig-time by means of a rubber stamp saying: "Greetings from mid-ocean and mid-heaven." Passenger Murray Simon related his adventures in 1910 as navigator on the airship America, which set out from Atlantic City, came down 1,000 miles at sea on the first attempt to cross by dirigible...
...July 1934 it looked as if the jig was up. His habit of kicking and biting policemen earned him another three months in jail, but M. Besson, still trusting in his parliamentary immunity, dismissed this scornfully...
Last week, 124 of the 231 went back, cooing with pleasure, to these same public rooms for a reunion unique in shipwreck history. Pulled off the reef, the Dixie. had been completely repaired in jig-time at a cost of $468,000. Ready to return to her regular run between New York and New Orleans, she was docked in Manhattan while her owners achieved a new high for astute public relations by inviting all the shipwreck victims within likely distance to a luncheon aboard her. Stuffing themselves on lamb chops and ice cream, the 124 traipsed through the ship, chattered...
Based on the highly debatable theory that the Celtic character is the most charming and the most comical of human phenomena, His Family Tree is principally a frame for James Barton's elaborate embroideries in brogue, blarney, eye-twin-kling and jig-steps. That an obsolete comicstrip narrative is not actually offensive is due to the skill of Joel Sayre and John Twist who adapted it for the screen. Good shot: Barton's skit of a drunk trying to read a newspaper which ends when he has rolled it helplessly into a soggy ball...