Word: tap
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Manhattan there are ice shows on night-club floors where once there was tap dancing. In the Midwest fancy skaters have supplanted hula-hula dancers as dinner entertainment at conventions. In Los Angeles suntanned citizens skate outdoors on artificial ice in bathing suits. And many ambitious mothers, well aware that Sonja Henie has made over $2,000,000 in the three vears since she turned professional, are making sacrifices to give their little girls expensive skating lessons...
...happiest little airplane factory in the U. S. last week was the Aeronca plant at Cincinnati. Aeronca usually makes just two ships in December, but an ex-tap dancer's amazing stunt had upped December orders...
...Chrysler line (Plymouth, De Soto, Dodge and Chrysler) second and General Motors (Chevrolet, Pontiac. Buick, Oldsmobile. LaSalle and Cadillac) far out in front. For 1939, Henry Ford has two major bids for a return to the day when flivvers led the field: 1) a new car, the Mercury, to tap the middle-price field; 2) installation, at last, of hydraulic brakes in all models. Only other newcomer in the field is an oldtimer, the Overland, which reappears as big brother to the little Willys...
...Balanchine has again shown a nice discretion in his adaptation of the ballet to musical comedy; at one point he combines a tap and a ballet to create an extremely pleasing and original number. His "tape-worm" finale to the first act was something of a disappointment, but it looked as if the ensemble and started on the wrong beat; another number entitled "Big Brother" just plan dies--the full chorus is on stage, but nothing happens, and a little boy is expected to carry the pens, and a little boy is expected to carry the number on adolescent cuteness...
...Temporary Student Employment Plan receives its meaning and value from the principle that, among financially embarrassed students, not only luminaries, but also scholars with a duller but persistent glow will be allowed to tap the streams of knowledge. Thus, while scholarships at Harvard hob-nob only with the Dean's List, T.S.E. jobs reach down to Group V. Granted the validity of this principle, it follows logically that the Temporary Student Employment Plan must be granted its rightful nook in the sun of the University budget...