Word: jigging
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...vanished in the night, that white flags were aflutter where Riffian machine guns popped when darkness fell. After conducting for five years one of the most stubborn "native revolts" of the present century against the encroachment of "civilized powers," Abd-El-Krim apparently decided last week that his jig was up?sued for peace, surrendered unconditionally...
Regent Horthy is supposed to be pro-Albrecht and Fascist, just as Premier Count Bethlen leans toward Otto and the strict Legitimists. Late last week Albrecht decided that the Fascist jig is up, and resigned as President of the Fascist League. It is almost unthinkable that the Allies will now let an Otto putsch succeed. Presumably the kingdom will continue kingless...
...Elsinore, Prince Hamlet, finding things rotten, berated his contemporaries, saying: "You jig, you amble...
Thomas A. Edison: "At a luncheon given by the cinema industry in my honor, I danced a jig, jokingly accounted for my capers by saying I had monkey glands. Besieged by literal-minded reporters, I explained that there was no literal truth in my remark...
...Harvard University Band," he declared. "I was leader of the band during the war, and responsible for getting their permanent set of instruments. I've played with university bands off and on for the last 29 years, and I helped compose 'Up the Street'. I put the jig in it. Do you suppose that I would have anything to do with taking their records...