Word: tap
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Plymouth, Vt. Miss Aurora Pierce, longtime Coolidge housekeeper, heard a tap on the homestead window. Allen Brown, a neighbor, was outside. She raised the sash to hear him say: "Calvin's dead, Aurora." She sat down in the room in which the 30th President of the U. S. had taken the oath from his father at 2:47 a. m., Aug. 3, 1923, and let her tears run in silent grief...
...years ago a George White show was a symbol; a hectic pageant of skits, sheiks, jugglers, tap dancers, Mormons, Turks, Doukhoubars, Greek gods, and Canadian Mounted Police. Sixty scenes and as many chorus girls were only attributes of a production that could be accurately described as "mammoth." But that was another age. An age that has gone the way of two dollar wheat. This bright new year has caught us turning back to the family circle and to what we are beginning to call the sentimental values...
Symbolic of the difference between their jobs are the gavels of the Vice President and the Speaker of the House. To tap for order the Vice President uses a small wooden cylinder about the size of a large salt shaker which he holds between his fingers. Under the Senate rules, he votes only to break a tie. He is not permitted to join in legislative debate or make any kind of speech. His utterances are confined to cut & dried parliamentary rulings which a Senate majority can overturn at will. On his Senate throne he is a glorified policeman, keeping peace...
Singer Richman has never had such an antiphonal background for his song "I Love A Parade." Miss Damita and her torrent of red hair appears even more charming than she was in Sons o' Guns. But black-banged Eleanor Powell, possibly the best lady tap-dancer in the business, gives her a race for being the most attractive female in the cast. Funnyman Lahr's noisy gullet has seldom been put to wider use.. He is successively a slightly bewildered master of a trained dog act ("to train dogs takes a lot of time, patience-and dogs...
...Tap on an office door before you open...