Word: jigged
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...grocer in Hopkinsville, Ky., who paid a dollar for his ticket and won $136,399 on Cameronian. His wife danced a jig and nodded when he announced his plans to "send receipts to all my creditors and then burn the account book publicly...
...Peanut Vendor (El Manisero), with its hot, catchy rhythm between a jig and a tango, has started an invasion. Don Azpiazu's Havana Orchestra brought the song north last year, played it with other Cuban tunes at RKO's Palace Theatre in Manhattan, afterwards at the smart Central Park Casino. Then Don Azpiazu went back to Cuba to entertain U. S. tourists. He left his tunes behind. Manhattan's Leo Reisman learned to lead them. Reisman's drummer mastered the four complicated beats which Cuban orchestras emphasize with the bongo (a double-headed drum held between...
Miss Isabel Hegner has consented to play the incidental music, with the help of Bernard Goldberg '33. The music, which will be off-stage, is to consist of old-fashioned melody, and, in the third act, of jig-time in the fashion of "Turkey in the Straw...
...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...