Word: spread
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Either we care for our traditions and tend them, or we don't" the article continues. "Thousands of schools and colleges in this country have dances every year: Harvard has a spread...
...Have we no longer the sense of individuality?" asks the Alumni Bulletin in a recent editorial attacking the change of name last year of the Senior Spread to the Senior Dance...
...writer deplores the passing of several names that have given the University individuality in the past but have disappeared along with the institutions they stood for among them Bloody Monday, and Med. Fec. But there is no excuse for allowing the Spread to go when it still exists, the writer feels...
...spread involved dancing if has involved dancing since the days of the cotillion)." the Bulletin argues, us tongue in its cheek, "and more people would come to a dance if you called it by its spade name. All of which is precious argument. No one ever went to a spread expecting a Punch and Judy show...
...rigmarole of his Make-Believe Ballroom, had made $60,000. Slim, trim, gently mustached, he is a darling of the jitterbug trade, has over 2,000,000 regular listeners a week, makes $20,000 a year extra for personal appearances, at $300 per. The Make-Believe Ballroom idea has spread to other cities, offers brisk competition to network stations wherever it exists...