Word: nautch
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...gong, Carnera ran out of his corner as lightly as a nautch girl and shoved a huge left at Maloney, who ducked. Maloney kept trying to hit the spot on Carnera's torso where a clean adhesive bandage marked the cracked rib. "Keep away, Jim," yelled the crowd, and Maloney obeyed, sometimes slapping the plaster, or standing on tiptoes to reach Carnera's face with a roundhouse swing. Although he was eight inches shorter he only fouled the brobdingnag once and then held out his gloves in apology. Carnera danced through eight rounds swinging ponderously, getting...
...observer during the Great War, as a prisoner in a Turkish dungeon and his subsequent escape, are but a few of the many sides of Major Yeats-Brown. That description of the polo game has already received its columns of praise; the midnight excursion to the haunts of the Nautch-girls has been written with a consummate delicacy and just as consummate a sincere frankness. The objectivity of the book, the chronicle of the details of a masterly adventurer places it above the brief span of a best-seller...
...acquaintance with Indians and Indian culture educated him out of humor with Western civilization. "Very humbly and hopefully'' he went to Benares, holy city of the Hindus, there to sit at the feet of Theosophist Annie Besant, to see her youthful embryo-Messiah Krishnamurti. In between expeditions to Nautch girls and in search of a guru (teacher) he played polo, stuck "pigs" (wild boars). He gives a vivid description of a polo match, a no less vivid account of what it feels like to chase a boar, try to pin it with a lance-thrust. Says he: "In the open...
...feature scenes of "Hassan" and the musical accompaniments to the Hindu and Nautch dances will be broadcast from WBZ, the Statler Hotel radio station between 8.30 and 9 o'clock Wednesday night, according to a recent announcement made by the club officers...
Miss Francesca Braggiotti has been secured to interpret the principal dancing role in the spring show "Hassan", it was announced yesterday by the Harvard Dramatic Club. She will present a dance which she has arranged especially for the play. It is a Hindu and Nautch dance given in an oriental setting, as an interpretation of the play...