Word: tango
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...party in London, Edward of Wales seized his brother George, cried "Pretend you're a lady and keep your long legs out of my way!" and stamped off with him in an exhibition of the tango...
...Moody decided that she would not "have time" to defend her title at Wimbledon last week, Betty Nuthall was the favorite to win the British Women's Championship. Her chief competitors were Helen Jacobs of Santa Monica, Calif., second ranking U. S. woman player in 1929; cocktail-drinking, tango-dancing Senorita Elia ("Lili") de Alvarez, who twice lost to Helen Wills in the Wimbledon finals; and Mrs. Lawrence A. Harper, first ranking U. S. woman player, a Californian with a hard left-handed drive, who lost to Betty Nuthall in the finals of the U. S. championships at Forest...
...Dancing the tango at Vina del Mar's Casino, H. R. H. belied advance press notices from London that he can tango. According to Chilean experts, what H. R. H. did was something between a tango and a waltz. "This made his steps," wrote one courteous Chilean, "quite the most unusual and newest on the floor." ¶ Entertaining a delegation of more than 100 Cuban business leaders, Britain's "Empire Salesman" used the American technique, served a typically hard "salesman's cocktail." ¶ Yachting on Lake Llanquihue, Chile, whence they proceeded to Lake Fria, Argentina...
...Peanut Vendor (El Manisero), with its hot, catchy rhythm between a jig and a tango, has started an invasion. Don Azpiazu's Havana Orchestra brought the song north last year, played it with other Cuban tunes at RKO's Palace Theatre in Manhattan, afterwards at the smart Central Park Casino. Then Don Azpiazu went back to Cuba to entertain U. S. tourists. He left his tunes behind. Manhattan's Leo Reisman learned to lead them. Reisman's drummer mastered the four complicated beats which Cuban orchestras emphasize with the bongo (a double-headed drum held between...
...about whether King Alfonso XIII is soon to be dethroned and a Spanish republic proclaimed. Edward of Wales will shortly arrive in Havana, but Cuban newspapers (until suppressed last week) were apathetic toward H. R. H., unstirred even by red-hot British despatches that Edward of Wales' Argentine tango is now almost perfect...