Word: polkas
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...little unnerving to 65-year-old Composer Stravinsky, and when he saw the papers, he denied that he had written the arrangement: he had only okayed it. Stravinsky once wrote an elephant's polka for Ringling Bros, and Barnum & Bailey, and a jazz concerto for Woody Herman (neither had the common touch). He will get double the going Tin Pan Alley rates for Summer Moon, and a 50-50 split on movie rights. Said he: "According to the newspapers, the only reason I wrote this arrangement was to make money. I am very glad if I do make money...
...Trumans had dinner quietly that night with Mackenzie King, while daughter Margaret sang solos for the 24 guests at an Embassy party and chimed in as the group sang Down by the Old Mill Stream. About 11 o'clock, Harry Truman joined the party. The President played a polka, Paderewski's Minuet in G, part of a Mozart sonata and some waltzes...
Tomorrow afternoon the musicians will travel 20 miles by bus and car to the Tedesco Country Club at Swampscott to present a concert with numbers ranging from Beethoven's Second Symphony to a homoruos Shostakovitch polka...
Well, it was here and it was good. Buttoning up his shirt, Vag glanced into the other room and saw that the two guys were dressed with definitely blue neckties peering out of their jackets. Nodding his head deliberately, he shuffled through the mass of stripes and polka-dots hanging behind his closet door, came up with a knitted crimson affair, and carefully knotted it between button-down collars. "Mustn't forget the other thing either," he said to no one in particular, and reaching tenderly into the towel and sheet drawer, he came up triumphantly with a pint...
...Strip Polka. In Louisville, Paul Johnston left his clubhouse late at night, started home, got slugged, awoke several hours later in a polka-dot dress...