Word: jigged
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...press world, the CRIMSON has a better "Instinctive feeling" for knowing when "something ought to be said" than for knowing how to say it. The result is the rather pitiful spectacle of the somewhat sedentary elephant of Plympton Street trying to make people forget with a puerile jig the fact that a short ten days before it had waltzed "into it" with all four of its ungainly feet...
...years, the Dancing Masters of America enjoyed their season of greatest prestige five years ago when the Charleston craze was at its zenith. Before that the Dancing Masters had been comparatively a small organization. But the impetus given dancing by the crazy Negro jazz-jig was felt by hordes of people who had never before trod a ballroom floor. Schools by the hundreds mushroomed all over the land. Applicants deluged Dancing Masters for membership. Today they are the largest professional group in the world...
...Cambridge, Mass, a crowd gathered to watch a man who, while washing windows on the ninth floor, was dancing a jig. Arrested for being a nuisance, the window washer, one James O'Reilly, asserted that he could also eat razor blades or glass, chewed and swallowed an electric light bulb to prove...
...years younger than Lord North, and one of the last two or three men in England to wear a top hat every day, even with a sack suit. The Countess of Coventry, past her fourth score of years, likes to say; "I can still do my five miles in jig time on a tricycle, and how many of your young people can?" As a private collection, the Earl's gallery of historic oil paintings at Croome Court is second to few. His boasts?he has been twice Captain of the King's Gentlemen-at-Arms, twice Master of Royal Buckhounds...
...children familiar with fairy tales are aware that Hansel and Gretel's father was a good-for-nothing. All fortunate enough to have been taken to Engelbert Humperdinck's opera know that he makes his entrance dancing a jig, brandishing a bottle. Because of him, Hansel and Gretel are raggedy, hard-working children who must search the woods for strawberries, thus falling into the clutches of a horrid old witch who comes near to eating them...