Word: steps
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...reader, I vote unequivocally for limitation. As advertiser, I vote for visibility, but visibility is only the first step. I have experienced the power of space in TIME, and I believe the potency of that space dependent upon proportion and selection as psychological factors. Visibility is but the physical aspect of the same principle. L. E. FIRTH Vice President...
...bank of the river, the state owns the river bottom to the international boundary, that the state, not the power company will develop power there. In Washington Senator Thomas James Walsh of Montana, prime foe of the "power trust," declared that the merger was a long step toward unified control of the power possibilities of the nation to which the people are "not only indifferent but apathetic." He added: "It is an ominous tale as well to the 40,000,000 people marketing their products through the ports of the Great Lakes and who look for speedy development...
...dancing instructor must be versed in all kinds of dancing. Gone is the cotillion master whose repertoire was complete with the schottische, polka and waltz. To be up-to-date the schools must teach the ballet, the toe-dance, the classical and acrobatic dance, the fox trot, one-step, two-step and waltz and the tap dance. Leading exponent of the latter is Billy Newsome, vaudevillian, onetime teacher for Ned Wayburn, Broadway showgirl trainer. The tap dance is in vogue. "Society," says Tapper Newsome, "is taking it up. I've tutored the Vanderbilts and the Astors and they love...
...society is white-haired, mustachioed Rudolf W. Vizay of Manhattan. For 46 years Dance Master Vizay has taught dancing to the cadets at the U. S. Military Academy. While others taught them to be soldiers, he has taught them the gentlemanly graces of the square dance, lancers, waltz, one-step. For years he discountenanced the two-step. Frigidly he frowned on the fox trot when it appeared, though now he says: "It is just as possible to dance a fox trot with dignity and propriety as it is to dance a waltz." He abhors exhibitionist Negro dancing, believes...
...instruction period begins with marching. Follows a rehearsal of the bow. Then comes the regular dancing, fox trot, waltz and one-step. The cadets do not dance together until they have "qualified." A "plebe" must take six weeks' compulsory dancing, must dance alone for five months before he can take his qualification tests. Result: many of them follow more skillfully than they lead. A girl who knows describes Dance Master Vizay's product as follows: "They are probably the stiffest, most boardlike group of dancing-men in the world...