Word: tap
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...rumor ran through Manhattan last week to the effect that Dancers Ruth St. Denis and Ted Shawn were to be divorced and that Dancer Shawn would desert the Denishawn School for a teaching partnership with Bill Robinson, Negro tap-dancer. To many it seemed an odd arrangement: Dancer Shawn does his leaps and bounds, usually half clad, in an earnest attempt to interpret fundamental moods. Natty little Dancer Robinson keeps his clothes on, is famed for his wide grin, his slick, metronomic way of hoofing up & down a flight of steps, and for being able to run backwards...
Inspired by its sense of responsibility as a moulder of public opinion, the CRIMSON will not go to California and laugh it off. Tireless investigation has uncovered a new but reliable formula which may solve the problem. Climb Lowell House Tower and tap base bell with weather vane (unobtrusively removed from Dunster House at high noon three days before). Number of echoes indicates proper month. Using standard sextant, determine latitude and longitude. Look at watch to find time of day. Multiply sum of these results by the height in rods of new Chapel Tower. By the time this is done...
...haughtily and in disdain of modern usage still wear veils with their black tunics: the Tuaregs. The riders sit on small saddle-platforms placed in front of the dromedary's single hump. They hold rods in their hands and reach forward with a peculiar, tense movement to tap the camel on the left side of the neck when they want him to turn right, on the right side to turn left. From deep in the riders' throats comes a sombre wail which for some reason camels find stimulating...
...best chess players in Manhattan, but he had begun to win. Although he made 50 moves to every one by his opponents, he often got around the square before a team was ready for him. He. for his part, would stop at a table, glance at the 64 squares, tap his finger once or twice on the edge of the board, and move. Always he attacked, usually with his favorite strategy-some variation of the queen s pawn opening. Twice he won games with a curious plan called the "Hollandish" opening, becoming popular in Europe but rare here. At midnight...
...team for its steady improvement throughout the season, Coach Wachter stated yesterday that he was hopeful of a win. In the first games of the year the lack of height of both centers and guards proved a severe handicap. Lately, however, the team has been successfully using the defensive tap. That is, the men have so arranged themselves that no matter which center gets the jump, they have a good chance to get possession of the ball. This opening strategy, combined with accurate hook-passing over the heads of the opposing guards, puts the Crimson within scoring range...