Word: jitterbug
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Having Wonderful Time. A typical G.I. evening on the Riviera runs as follows: dinner at 7, movie at 8, then to the Angleterre's Air Forces nightclub, where G.I.s jitterbug, watch a floor show which includes jugglers, acrobats, tap dancers...
...showed the injured member to interested doctors at New York State Workmen's Compensation Bureau, demanded more compensation for depletion of a capital asset. Paying customers, she explained, "expect to see my knees. I can't turn or kick and all I do is fake a few jitterbug steps...
...world's great violin virtuosos, came off second-best at General Omar N. Bradley's little entertainment in Germany for a group of visiting Soviet generals. After Heifetz and Cinemactor Mickey Rooney had drawn polite applause, three unidentified G.I.s and three WACs went into a groovey jitterbug routine that sent the delighted Russians right out of this world...
Just from one bumping trip across the floor we ran into--John White, over from the Statler, dancing in quite a romantic mood; Max Kirschbaum, who in one of his more violent jitterbug frenzies almost floored us and his date for keeps; Tommy Smith in an angle in the wall deep in intellectual fog with someone very charming to be that way with; Dan Brestel, also fighting toward the bar with little success; and Jason Widmer, who had his buffet supper with his date at Revere Beach...
Rhumbas, Sambas, and jitterbug numbers were interspersed by Newman among the more popular fox trots, to provide a variety of dance music...