Word: tango
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...take such roles as a coconut, a mermaid with a guitar, a swordfish, a gasoline pump, a ventilator. Last week's audience had no dancers to explain what was happening or to whom it was happening. They heard only music to express life aboard ship, a hot-blooded tango where the mermaids are supposed to interrupt ship routine, two catchy tunes to convey tropic abandon. Critics suspected that H. P. contained more South American hotcha than it did authentic Indian music...
...Victor) Serenade In The Night**1/4 by Roy Fox. Britain again invades our shores with what may be another Ray Noble. Here is a slow tango that needs no Latin to feel its appeal; too bad it is marred by poor lyrics. The reverse, That's Life, I Guess*3/4 by Guy Lombardo is so soft and gooey that your needle ought to stick in the grooves...
...musical test in the zoo to determine which chimpanzee was the most impressionable. "When the animals' curiosity toward the instruments." he reported, "had abated somewhat-they tried to tear the instruments away from us and play on them themselves-I discovered, to my surprise, that a soulful modern tango made a greater impression than an equally modern but turbulent foxtrot." Most fascinated by the music was a 7-year-old male named Peter. Dr. Thoma therefore went to work on Peter. The psychologist succeeded in fixing Peter's attention on a shiny metal knob, which he gradually withdrew...
...opponent down, beat him about the face till he swallowed the ear. As indication that not all Patagonian hard cases are yet dead, jailed or retired, Jimmy wrote the Childses after their departure that he was sorry to say that a man Mrs. Childs had danced the tango with had since been shot...
With the right hand leading ("The left is lazy," explains M. Martin), the lively little duet twinkled through an intricate tango. Then the enterprising right fingers slipped into a pair of wee leather boots, flew into a Russian Kozatzki. After that; the astonishing finger-feet stepped into little silver slippers, the handiwork...