Word: muste
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Potent is the Republican National Committeeman from New York for, above all others, he must know the rich men whose contributions sustain the G. O. P. in campaigns. Potent, too, is his associate, New York's National Committeewoman, for above all others, she must know the 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...
Taps. Nowadays a dancing instructor must be versed in all kinds of dancing. Gone is the cotillion master whose repertoire was complete with the schottische, polka and waltz. To be up-to-date the schools must teach the ballet, the toe-dance, the classical and acrobatic dance, the fox trot, one-step, two-step and waltz and the tap dance. Leading exponent of the latter is Billy Newsome, vaudevillian, onetime teacher for Ned Wayburn, Broadway showgirl trainer. The tap dance is in vogue. "Society," says Tapper Newsome, "is taking it up. I've tutored the Vanderbilts and the Astors...
...instruction period begins with marching. Follows a rehearsal of the bow. Then comes the regular dancing, fox trot, waltz and one-step. The cadets do not dance together until they have "qualified." A "plebe" must take six weeks' compulsory dancing, must dance alone for five months before he can take his qualification tests. Result: many of them follow more skillfully than they lead. A girl who knows describes Dance Master Vizay's product as follows: "They are probably the stiffest, most boardlike group of dancing-men in the world...
...Arabs are a virile people, resourceful in character, indefatigable in purpose and imbued with a national spirit which, at times, partakes of fanaticism. To deal with such a situation, there must be an understanding, there must be some definite arrangement, some definite program...
...help shove some of the mountains which must be moved if Russia is to increase her industrial production by one-third, the Union Council of People's Commissars debated last week a decree which would abolish Sunday, institute a seven-day working week in all factories and other Russian institutions. Said Moscow's daily Pravda, seemingly confident that the measure would be adopted...