Word: popularity
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...TIME of Aug. 19, (P-47) the adage is quoted in its popular form, "Those who can, do. Those who can't, Teach." In view of your characterization of this as "bitter and unfair" you may be interested to know of Bernard Shaw's recantation or at least modification of that caustic remark in his Preface to The W. E. A. Education Yearbook (1918) pp. 20, 21 : "This, by the way, is the best answer to my famous gibe, 'He who can do, does: he who can think, teaches' is just as true as the other...
Charleston. Elected second vice president of the society was Adolph Newburger of Manhattan, whose claim to fame is that he taught the Charleston 20 years before it became popular. He denies it originated among South Carolina Negroes. It was, he says, one of the steps in his stage-dance, "The American Beauty Rose," danced more than 15 years...
...propriety as it is to dance a waltz." He abhors exhibitionist Negro dancing, believes it to be fit only for the stage. He admits that the waltz, one-step and fox trot constitute a trinity whence all variations come, and that the real arbiters of dance fashion are popular music writers...
...West Point, Dance Master Vizay is not popular. The cadets, though they like dancing with girls, think there is something sissified about taking dancing lessons. Their dancing uniform is a white shirt, grey trousers, black belt...
...were on the wane. In public a studied smile corrected the arrogant sag of her mouth and she gave change like charity. Madame Londe supplied needs other than gastronomic ones. For her customers she was breaking in Fernande, 13, who sniggered when tickled. Angèle, older, reliable, was more popular. Only Angèle could answer inquisitive Madame Londe's "whys" about the customers. Somehow Madame Londe did not set Angèle to probe this reticent stranger Guèret. Yet it was Angèle who attracted Guèret nightly to the restaurant's neighborhood...