Word: shim
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...dress for a museum. Its lustrous white satin billowed from the waist into a crinoline that coruscated with flowers of pearls and leaves of gold. Shim mering gold-and-pearl-embroidered lace swathed the noble bodice, gold and pearl paillettes festooned the ample skirt. It cost...
...youth on her first trip to the city in six years. Said she: "New York looked different then. I think the buildings looked taller, but maybe it's because I was shorter." She teamed up with her oldtime dancing partner Bill ("Bojangles") Robinson to do a shim-sham-shimmy before 50,000 in Central Park. Exclaimed modest Miss Temple: "I haven't done this since I was seven, so excuse me if I'm not so hot." Said Robinson: "Honey, you haven't done this since you were four. So it's going...