Word: tango
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Ambassador Espil, 56, is sometimes called the "Mona Lisa of the Pam pas" for his thought-concealing smile. He first came to the U.S. in 1919 as first secretary to the Embassy, London-tailored, expert at the tango, an escort of Wallis Spencer years before she became the Duchess of Windsor. But Don Felipe was no mere tailor's dummy. He studied the U.S. and its economics. By 1931 he had become Ambassador, and in the next twelve years operated smoothly on friction-fraught issues...
...tango hit, To Content the Old Lady, was renamed To Gratify Mother...
...simple loop of rope secured overhead. Rocking is started, head and feet alternately down about 50 degrees, a complete seesaw every four or five seconds. British Surgeon Lieut. G. H. Gibbens suggests in the British Medical Journal: "It helps some people if they hum a tango or a slow tune, moving the stretcher at the beginning of each...
...most enduring popular songs (Madelon, The Trail of the Lonesome Pine, etc.). It begins by impressing its listeners as musical beer and sauerkraut, ends by becoming a habit-forming musical drug. With an ump-pah accompaniment, it is a march. Changed to ump-da-dump-dump, it becomes a tango. In either case, the strains are of a kind which easily attach themselves to romantic memories and the pathos of separation...
...Ministry-dining at the Savoy with Hore-Belisha. . . . She is probably the only woman who ever appeared at a formal Cliveden dinner in a tricked-up red bathrobe. (She had left all her clothes in Paris when the Nazis came.) But the next week she was dancing a cockney tango with some of England's "little people" in an East...