Word: tango
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Flicker. In the interest of another kind of dancing came Roger MacEwan, a dance-master of Glasgow and London. He too brought a new dance, his own invention, called the "Oxford" and consisting of four variants of the fox trot and tango. Included in his suite was a thing called the "flicker" which he said was the rage in London. Obligingly he "flicked" for the 80 delegates. Pointing a well-shod toe, taking a step forward with the right foot, bringing the left across so that the ankles touch, the "flickerer" then stamps smartly with the right foot, executing...
...limited; like horse-racing, its primary purpose is to excite spectators who are interested 1) in observing the eccentricities with which the contestants pursue their objective, and 2) in seeing which contestant will win. Such eccentricities, augmented by the strain of long-continued competition, vary from temporary insanity to tango dancing...
...week famed Japanese seismologist Dr. Shinichi Kunitomi fairly beamed upon correspondents as he said: "We were very fortunate this time. The amplitude of the quake was such as to indicate a national catastrophe, but fortunately the centre of the earth movement was ten miles out at sea, off the Tango peninsula. That alone accounts for the present minimum of disaster...
...sled drawn by bullocks-the peculiar means of transport on this Portuguese isle. At eve, Lord Birkenhead dined, naturally at one of the great hotels-the same in which George Bernard Shaw stopped when he visited Madeira, two winters ago. There the dancing master who taught Mr. Shaw to tango has on display his photograph with the smug inscription: "To the only man who could teach me anything. (Signed) G. B. S." Strolling in to dinner Lord Birkenhead examined the photograph, allowed his lip to curl at the Irish red-head's boast. Drawing his pen he wrote below...
Complications are plentiful in the romance when Dolores Casanova, vamp of Spain, comes on the stage, leading Rockwell's valet, Jimmy Walker, a merry tango. L. W. Grossman 1G.B, who wrote the music for last year's show and portrayed Nooky in the "Fool-for Scandal,", furnishes a large share of the comedy as Jimmie Walker. Spanish girls still have a thing or two to learn from C. R. Frazier '27, in the part of Dolores Casanova...