Word: tango
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Bangs & Tangos. "The year 1913," a French critic once wrote, "was distinguished by the arrival in Paris of Foujita and the tango." For a while they were almost equal sensations. An ambitious art student who had thrice been refused admission to the Tokyo Salon, Foujita rightly reasoned that his black bangs, Harold Lloyd glasses and whisker-fine brush drawings would please Parisians more than they did his fellow Japanese. He came to know Montmartre better than he had Fujiyama, strolled its steep streets in a leopard-skin hat, followed by a brace of tabbies on a leash...
...sort of role that Rudolph Valentino, the greatest movie lover of them all, would have enjoyed. The role: an immigrant Italian tango-dancer rises from a gardener's job in Manhattan's Central Park to the giddiest heights of Hollywood stardom, and then dies at the age of 31. But independent Producer Edward (The Count of Monte Cristo) Small sees the story as a box-office natural. For eleven years Small has been getting his name in the papers year in & year out by promising to film Valentino's life...
...feeding the dwindled foreign community the old familiar diet of gossipy chitchat, straight news, Li'l Abner, Joe Palooka and Dorothy Dix. Soon he was squabbling with Nationalist censors. When one killed a story at the last minute, Gould filled the hole with an ad: "Printing done and tango taught at Shanghai Evening Post...
Thirteen Radcliffe Dolphin Club members will swim to the beat of a tango rhythm at a water-ballot symposium in the Wellesley pool Saturday at 2 p.m. Swimmers from Wellesley, Smith, Wheaton, and Massachusetts University will also participate...
Each group will perform two or three original Water routines. Besides the tango act, Ann Clark '49, president of the Dolphins, and Christine Bosshard '51 will do a waltz duet. Part of the act will consist of waltz duet. Part of the act will consist of shadow swimming: one girl doing a back stroke on the surface while the other cuts underwater with a reverse stroke...