Word: tap
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...away by the Fun of It All with no though of the implications of their wild brainstorms, beyond attaining the goal of oppressive collectivism. While it is perfectly true that Washington could do very well with a dozen economists above the stature of Messrs. Warren and Pearson, and could tap the expertise resources of the country with more discretion than it has shown so far, it is not true, nevertheless, that those of the Left Wing are either blind to the possibilities of their measures, or, on the other hand, filled with the shining vision of the Kremlin...
Among the stars who are returning from last year's production are: Robert Breckenridge '34, who was president of the Harvard Dramatic Association last year; Henry H. Brewster '35, whose inebriated tap dance last year will be remembered as one of the high-lights; Arthur M. Jones, Jr. '36, the swash-buckling pirate chief; Waters Kellogg '34, the perennial chorine; and Franklin P. Whitbeck '35, Lawrence von B. Nichols '35, Peter W. Jopling '35, Eugene N. Foss, II '34, and Daniel T. V. Huntoon '35, all of whom will be remembered for their parts in last year's show "Step...
Before the War a Jewish tailor is shown at his wedding, his friends crying Mazeltov ("Good luck"). A Frenchman picks up a pretty girl, takes her to a shooting gallery. A Briton awaits the birth of his son. A Negro tap-dances in a Paris music hall. A German cabinetmaker watches his son play with a toy cannon. This cannon fades into a real one and War begins. After a battle the Jew, the Frenchman, the Briton, the Negro and the German find refuge, one by one, in an abandoned dugout between the lines. They make friends, lose their race...
...home in Newton, Mass. Bostonians knew him as the white-thatched, twinkly-eyed jurist who wore flashy ties and waistcoats, waved to his friends from the bench, admitted Russian refugees into the U. S. and conscientious objectors to citizenship, called Uncle Sam a "sneaking cur" for letting Prohibition agents tap wires. The entire nation heard of him when he temporarily halted the extradition of a Negro charged with murder in Virginia on the ground that no Negroes got on Virginia juries (TIME...
Another chorus of quick-legged, milk-chocolate girls swing and stomp, shove and pull. A long succession of skits plays with the facts of life with the unsophistication of a barnyard. The king of tap-dancers, stocky little Bill Robinson, slaps his soles against the floor with classic virtuosity. Plump Edith Wilson, scrawny Kathryn Perry sing ably, gaily. The stage crawls with conventional Negro comedians, making fun of Negroes for white entertainment. Eddie Hunter explains to two friends the Eugene O'Neill plot of what he calls the Emperor Bones. It leads into an Emperor Jones jungle bacchanal, feathered...