Word: rumbas
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...Abbe Lane, featured singer with the Xavier Cugat band, and the cause of a separate maintenance suit filed by Mrs. Cugat, told the court her side of the story. Mrs. Cugat had charged that detectives found the singer "naked as a jay bird" in a hotel room with her rumba-loving husband. Not so, said Abbe. She had used the room simply to make a quick change for a midnight movie with the boss. When the detectives burst in, she said, "I had panties on and slippers." but "no brassiere, not with that gown." And how was Mr. Cugat dressed...
...dance craze was sweeping the hemisphere. Part rumba and part jive, with a strong dash of itching powder, the mambo had left unstormed only the tango strongholds of Argentina and the samba-land of Brazil. In all the other Americas, dancers quivered and kicked-sedately in swank nightclubs and wildly in smoky dives-to the mambo beat. This week its originator, Dámaso Pérez Prado, 29, was scheduled to arrive in New York to carry the assault...
...readers the Hungarian Communist line on dancing. The waltz and polka are "traditionally democratic." The tango, fox trot and English waltz, though "reflections of the capitalist decline . . . cannot be classed with American dances. They may now be danced with taste." But the samba, swing, boogie-woogie, rumba, conga and the like "are tools of aggression let loose by the bosses of America against human culture and progress...
...rumba, I can do the splits...
Experts wrote essays proving that the bambuco had been the national dance all along. So far as Bogotá was concerned, the rumba, samba and the tango had a new and potent rival...