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Word: rhythm (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...named Gilda, starring "an actress named Rita Hayworth." Charged Gilda: the picture invades not only the privacy of her life, but even that of her shimmy, which the brief defined as "a rhythmical shivering and shaking of parts of the body, synchronized and performed to a personalized syncopated musical rhythm...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: People, Apr. 25, 1949 | 4/25/1949 | See Source »

...strains of "Alexander's Ragtime Band," "Manhattan Serenade," and "Basin Street," this last with the assistance of feet-square boards, blue on one side and red on the other. The girls did not form any flower shapes or spell out a tribute to any organization. They just swam in rhythm. "Good for the nerves," a slight fellow next to me muttered lighting a cigarette...

Author: By Gene R. Kearney, | Title: Health Hucksters Ogle Aquacaders | 4/22/1949 | See Source »

...proved to be a master of flowing figure composition, of painted space and painted light. He handled crowds and battle scenes with the flair of a D. W. Griffith, and pictured farmers and factory hands with so much natural rhythm that their work had the quality of a dance. But all this skill was just the foundation for the best virtue of Diego's art: an atmosphere of joyful reverence for life, which onlookers could remember long after the details of the paintings had faded from their minds...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: The Long Voyage Home | 4/4/1949 | See Source »

...Crimson Stompers, a Dixieland band, will play at the jazz concert. Trumpeter Paul Watson of the Vinal Rhythm Kings has promised to join them...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: 'Cliffe Freshmen Plan Big Weekend To Raise Funds for Adoption of DP | 3/17/1949 | See Source »

...advanced modern dance class will demonstrate various rhythm routines as well as original creations in individual interpretive dance...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Dance Groups to Hold Symposium | 3/17/1949 | See Source »

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