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Word: tap (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...cost setup, with Correspondent John Steele the only staff man abroad, Chicago Tribune's Sigrid Schultz on retainer in Berlin, Waverly Root in Paris, English Newsman Patrick Maitland on tap in Warsaw. At home plate virtually the whole team is clear and quick-thinking, war-trained Commentator Raymond Gram Swing, who has been eating, sleeping, reading, listening, broadcasting round the clock in a 24th floor office of WOR on Broadway...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Air Alarums | 9/11/1939 | See Source »

...Crosby). Like Impresario Edwards, Larry goes on mopping up with his moppets until a children's protective society forcibly shows him the error of his ways. By that time Larry has uncovered practically everything the U. S. has to show in the way of juvenile talent from miniature tap dancers to a 14-year-old coloratura soprano (Linda Ware), who is good enough to sing with Walter Damrosch (Walter Damrosch). And in the meantime grownup Bing Crosby has had a chance to sing as well as they have ever been sung such Gus Edwards classics as School Days, Sunbonnet...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: New Picture: Sep. 4, 1939 | 9/4/1939 | See Source »

...Minton, whom they sent to the Senate in 1935; Edmund Arthur Ball of Muncie, member of the rich glass-jar family; and Fred Bays, a dapper, saturnine oldtime dancer and circus man. Him they made Democratic State Chairman, to handle ballyhoo. Besides banners, bands and buttons, Mr. Bays uses tap dancers, a singing cop, contortionists. When the McNutt campaign gets going nationally, the country may see something remarkable...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CAMPAIGN: White-Haired Boy | 7/10/1939 | See Source »

...lavish, tuneful, talent-packed as a good radio variety hour, Man About Town is just about as entertaining, just about as memorable. Pleasant surprise: that Rochester Van Jones (Eddie Anderson), Benny's radio valet, can tap as expertly as he can stooge...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Jul. 10, 1939 | 7/10/1939 | See Source »

...week Boomps-a-Daisy went into the big time when Band Leader Jack Hylton opened a ten-week revue at London's Palladium, had an Edwardian-costumed chorus perform the dance, invited the audience to join in in the aisles. Boomps-a-Daisy goes as follows: face partner, tap hands; clap hands to knees; "with great delicacy and discretion," boomp hip against bustle; place hand on heart, bow; waltz for four bars; repeat the whole thing. Boomps-a-Daisy was launched in the U. S. on a television program in Manhattan last fortnight, is to be tried...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Boomps, Yips | 7/10/1939 | See Source »

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