Word: jigged
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...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...
...were professionally addressed as pigeon-men, cat-men, fish-men. The pigeon-men traipsed through long rows of cages, following taciturn judges who pointed metal wands at the chosen birds-tumblers, carriers, homers. Ella, a parrot, cried: "When in Childs do as the children do." Pavlova, stork, danced a jig. Socrates, cinnamon bear, ponderously spelled out proverbs with colored blocks: BE GOOD AND YOU'LL BE LONESOME. EARLY TO BED. EARLY TO RISE AND YOU'LL NEVER MEET ANY PROMINENT PEOPLE. Florenz Ziegfeld bought a white wolf, not for his daughter Patricia but to give to the Boston...
Symphony Hall, 8.30 o'clock. English Folk Dance Society in Country dances, Morris jig, Sword dance...