Word: steps
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...answer Mr. Valentino walked over to Mrs. Gould "with a firm and dignified step," and spun her out upon the floor in a Brazilian maxixe. As dawn broke, Frisco awarded him first prize in the Charleston contest...
...Prince Nicholas, celebrated his renunciation by staging a wild party at Mitchell's, atop Montmartre, Paris (see CELEBRITIES DINE). Later he and the mysterious lady left Vienna to seek a quiet exile in Sweden; and he is expected to arrive shortly at Bucharest, in order to retract his rash step, which he now bitterly regrets...
...University yesterday took its first step toward the preparation for the tricentennial celebration of its foundation, to be held ten years hence, when it announced the appointment of Professor Samuel Eliot Morison '08 as historian for the occasion...
...first step taken was in the latter direction, when the Senate passed a bill creating an Assistant Secretary of Commerce in charge of commercial aviation (see LEGISLATIVE WEEK). But the debate had little to do with military naval aviation, and so the figure who will probably have most to do with determining the question did not ap- pear. He is the Chairman of the Senate Military Affairs Committee. Amid all the hubbub he has remained silent, venturing no opinions, making no speeches. His only actions worth mentioning in Congress during the past three weeks, have been occasionally to assume...
...clear winter midnight last week, a patrolman standing in the shadow of a doorway on West 42nd St., Manhattan, saw a figure proceeding irregularly toward him, now with a kittenish skip, now with a wobbling adaptation of a popular dance-step, now with a stride that sagged curiously sideways. The patrolman stepped out of shadow. The night-wanderer raised a hand in genial recognition...