Word: polkaing
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Private Life: Married, has one daughter, Mary, 29. Loves to dance (especially an energetic waltz or polka), enjoys a drink. Likes to watch television and thinks receivers ought to be cheaper so that everybody can have...
...Budapest monthly Muvelt Nep (Cultured People) laid out for its readers the Hungarian Communist line on dancing. The waltz and polka are "traditionally democratic." The tango, fox trot and English waltz, though "reflections of the capitalist decline . . . cannot be classed with American dances. They may now be danced with taste." But the samba, swing, boogie-woogie, rumba, conga and the like "are tools of aggression let loose by the bosses of America against human culture and progress...
...Senate seat now warmed by Adman Bill Benton (Bowles's old partner in Benton & Bowles) looked a little more inviting. Mitchell put his influence behind a hearty, handsome Wall Street banker named Prescott Bush,-who played first base at Yale (1915-17), likes to dance the polka with the Polish girls and join in singing "the old songs" at political rallies. Bush was opposed by starchy Vivien Kellems, a Stonington manufacturer, one of the few Americans who is far enough to the right to be considered patriotic by Westbrook Pegler. Vivien stopped the roll call when it reached...
...receive a Phi Beta Kappa key and an honorary doctorate of laws. He took lunch at the home of the university's tall, grey-haired President Frederick Middlebush. Afterward in the living room he got a new round of laughter and applause by playing the Jenny Lind Polka as a piano duet with his sister, birdlike, 60-year-old Mary Jane Truman, and by giving her a brotherly poke with his elbow for making a mistake in her chording...
...farmer bent his back in the June sun and worked the land. He labored wherever the earth lay open, the rain fell and the sun shone-from the lumpy flats of Aroostook County, Me., where the summer potatoes germinated in their dirt hills, to California's Imperial Valley, polka-dotted by the gold of new oranges and ripening honeydews...