Word: tango
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...country is becoming South American conscious and the interest is reflected in Harvard record collections. Xavier Cugat and his rumbas and congas are the hits of the minute. Tunes like "Down Argentine Way" parallel the tango bands' success...
President Manuel Luis Quezon of the Philippines governs his islands like the shrewd little tango dancer that he is. His jaunty administration has helped to convince many Filipinos that they have nothing to fear from the single-lidded gaze of the Japanese narrowing southward across the Philippines toward Singapore and the East Indies. Last week the Philippines looked and sounded like anything but a great tension point of the Far East. The defense budget had been sliced in half. Government money was being poured out for beautification. Manila's boulevards were shining with the façades...
...Ridstones, James & Joan, to tour the U. S. Their spellbinding exhibition of figure skating started America's roller-skating boom. Today most roller skaters, instead of going round & round in the old-fashioned way, do the Chicken Scratch, the Howdy-Do and other "called-out" (square) dances, waltz, tango and fox-trot in pairs. More ambitious skaters learn to do rockers and counters, brackets and loops, hope to be able some day to compete in the annual April tournament of the R. S. R. O. A. (Roller Skating Rink Owners Association), the governing body of the sport...
...best pupils Dancing Teacher Arthur Murray ever had was wry-faced little Manuel Luis Quezon (pronounced kay-son'), President of the Commonwealth of the Philippines. Gay, nimble Mr. Quezon, who one night took out 16 Murray instructresses all at once, quickly became a tango expert. To the U. S. State Department, and to U. S. citizens with large investments in the Philippines, Mr. Quezon has been a tango expert ever since-and his dizzying cavortings have given them more than one headache. Last week, as Japan went into new and ominous activity the eyes of the U. S. were...
...Quezon last week could see no serious opposition at home. He had long since danced rings around his onetime friend and later rival, Sergio Osmena. But from outside, the threatening forces crowded-forces which might also concern the U. S. The question an anxious State Department pondered was where Tango Dancer Quezon, with the Philippines in his arms, would whirl next...