Word: polkas
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Tiger Does the Polka...
...talk about that symbol of 'elegance' for the working-class woman, the white blouse. To hell with the white blouse . . . Those polka-dotted or checked blouses are now the vogue. You can get them for 47 to 59 forints ($4 to $5) in every department store . . . Don't tell me you can't afford...
...lantern-jawed singer with baby-doll bangs and a piano player with a floppy polka-dot bow tie opened and closed their mouths like goldfish sending up bubbles from the bottom of a murky aquarium. The sound of their voices was drowned out by the thumping and puffing of six poker-faced young men behind them, who played their instruments with loud, emotionless precision. In the darkness out front several hundred listeners crowded around small tables, stood three deep at the bar, or sat in straight-backed chairs in an upholstered bull pen. On the mirror in the far corner...
Margaret Truman and her father were guests of honor at the National Press Club's first father-daughter banquet. Billed as the "traveling Trumans," the talented pair played a piano duet of the Jenny Lind Polka, a tune they had first rehearsed when Margaret...
...with his 13-year-old son: "I was just going to whip the wife a little and he hit me on the head with a brick." In Springfield, Mass., Robert H. Smith won a divorce when he testified that his wife slapped him because he could not dance the polka...