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Word: strutter (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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Florence Mills, pastel darktown strutter, made a very serious concert bow last week before the International Composers' Guild, Manhattan, Eugene Goossens and Ottorino Respighi conducting; Mme. Respighi, soloist, and Alfredo Casella, pianist. Thin, glittering, syncopation in her eye, she sang four songs with a small jazz orchestra-"Levee Land" it was called, by William Still...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: New Magazine | 2/1/1926 | See Source »

...only Florence Mills familiar to the public is Florence Mills, the darktown strutter, famed Negro cabaret dancer. This fact, disregarded by the composer of the Times inept headline, caused the well-informed readers to gag upon their three-minute eggs. The real bride was, they discovered, white...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Inept Headline | 7/13/1925 | See Source »

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