Word: quickstep
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...last week, after a bracing yachting trip on the Potomac with Associate Justices Felix Frankfurter and Harlan F. Stone, the President made an announcement which sent the General Staff into a glad quickstep. His limited emergency proclamation last month gave him clear authority to increase the enlisted strength of Army, Navy, Marine Corps and National Guard, said the President; therefore he had the implied authority to spend the necessary money, and he intended to go ahead, ask Congress afterwards...
...Bund, the British cruiser Capetown lay at anchor, with a private telephone cable running ashore. At retreat, night after night, Chinese ashore had heard the ship's band playing the Capetown's special quickstep, and it was that same march that the Chinese band of grateful General Yeh Peng blared through the corridors of Asiatic Petroleum Co. while his officers, bearing their banner with its strange device, tramped onward...