Word: polkaing
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Chili Williams, "The Polka Dot Girl," wounded Dry-Goodsman William Schiller, who calls himself "The Polka Dot King." He had her under contract to wear nothing but polka dots (see cut), but lately, complained Schiller-a man who crosses his ts and eyes his dots-she had appeared dotless in public. He set out to break the contract...
...spite of his flapping blue uniform and red scarf with white polka dots, he had shed all his clownishness. He made no attempt to save his neck, again & again gluttonously claimed responsibility: "I am responsible for German rearmament. . . . I always wanted bombers for bombing the U.S. . . . I personally gave the orders to bomb Warsaw, Rotterdam and Coventry." With furious gusto, he shifted blame from fellow defendants to himself. He spoke with unvarying respect of Adolf Hitler, cried: "I do not propose in any way to hide behind the Führer...
...Witness François Boix, French, remembered a special ceremony at Mauthausen concentration camp at which a prisoner was hanged while a gypsy orchestra, in mocking counterpoint to death, fiddled through the Beer Barrel Polka and J'attendrai...
...make Ford first again keeps Young Henry moving fast with his bouncing stride. He gets up early, usually at 6 a.m., showers and dresses. Most of the time he wears dark, expensively cut grey or blue double-breasted suits (still made by his prep-school tailor), favors blue polka dot four-in-hands...
...time Bohemia was blacked out by war, Vejvoda had already collected sizable royalties. Polka sold more than a half million copies in the U.S. alone...