Word: manhattans
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...President Hoover last week sent a message to the Zionist Organization of America, under the auspices of which a huge Manhattan demonstration against Arab outrages in Palestine was held (see p. 26). Declared President Hoover: ". . . My profound sympathy . . . good citizens deplore. . . . Our government is deeply concerned ... the fine spirit shown by the British government. . . . American Jews . . . have demonstrated fine sentiment and ideals. . . . Out of these tragic events will come greater security and greater safeguards for the future under which the steady rehabilitation of Palestine as a true homeland will be even more assured. . . . The fine sympathy of the American people...
...wives of the money bags. Charles Dewey Hilles is still the New York committeeman. To fill the committeewoman's post, empty since the resignation of Mrs. Charles Hamilton Sabin to fight Prohibition, New York G. 0. Politicians last week agreed to choose Mrs. Ruth Sears Baker Pratt of Manhattan, New York's first Congresswoman. The fact that Mr. Hilles, out of political step with the Hoover Administration, had been without influence in choosing his political "wife," prompted Frank Richardson Kent, the Baltimore Sun's all-wise political observer, to comment...
...sunburned girl in a bathing suit, her ankles ringletted with bells, danced in a Manhattan ballroom last week a dance that few white men had ever seen before. To a slow orchestral accompaniment she pounded barefoot on the floor, bowed low, bent back, made gestures as of sowing grain, beseeching fertility. Lining the walls on three sides sat 80 interested men and women. Some were young, some were white-haired, most were matronly looking women and burly, oldish men. Fascinated, they began to beat the rhythm with their programs, then one by one they rose, joined the dancer...
...Agnes Boone, onetime performer with Ruth St. Denis and Ted Shawn's Denishawn Dancers. The rest were dancing masters and mistresses from all over the country who form the American Society of Teachers of Dancing. For 51 years members of the Society have convened annually, usually in Manhattan, to sit in judgment on the dance, to review old dances, see and invent new ones...
Charleston. Elected second vice president of the society was Adolph Newburger of Manhattan, whose claim to fame is that he taught the Charleston 20 years before it became popular. He denies it originated among South Carolina Negroes. It was, he says, one of the steps in his stage-dance, "The American Beauty Rose," danced more than 15 years...