Word: jigging
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...young, no doubt, his first toys were those aggravating, unforgettable picture puzzles, pieced together at great pains, and taken apart in a twinkle so that the eager child may begin again. His whole consciousness has been colored by these toys, and with painstaking care he puts together arbitrarily Jig-sawed pieces of cardboard until finally the completed puzzle with all its pieces showing stands out in its utter unreality...
...Garbage Man" is a delirious and effective scramble of American life, dealing with parades on Fifth Avenue, funerals, the Secret Service, he--and she--intellectuals, train-wrecks and night amusements on Union Square. Its satirical content is immense. Poking the ribs of inexplicable stupidities, making the mourners jig at the funeral, causing the garbage man to soliloquize horribly over the victims of the wreck, Mr. dos Passos' play makes the skeleton laugh while its bones rattle accompaniment. The hero's windy diatribes in re the moon and the "voice of the machine" are not successful to the same degree...
...ticket and make the ballot look like part of the telephone directory. The Standard Bearers have no flags to wave, but their party gives them a "plat- form" ingeniously constructed of sagging, soft "planks." For at least a month the Standard Bearers are supposed to do a graceful jig on these planks. Then comes election day, and the panting dancers are either governors and senators, or lame ducks...
Both Black and White ride jig-by-jole along...
...expectant London ladies, relieving them of maternal anxieties and fat fees. A fallen gentleman, Mr. Still, is his able secretary. A charming, competent demimondaine blackmails her way into the business, putting it on a wholesale basis through the post. After a certain number of months, of course, the jig seems up, and Mr. Marcus Faithful becomes small Mr. Crump again, dismayed when his hitherto barren wife bears twins as the result of secret correspondence with Mr. Faithful. The rich travesty on modern advertising is rounded off by an amazing rise in the male birth rate and universal posthumous acclaim...