Word: tap
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Patrice is as choice a bloom as any in the recent bevy of young sopranos. Only child of a Spokane, Wash., dentist, Patrice made her first splash six years ago when she sang before the Spokane Citizens' Club. Before she was 14 she had become a ballet and tap dancer, and an expert in what she calls "artistic whistling." For the past three years she has lived in Manhattan with her mother, who holds her to a strict daily routine: 10:30 to noon, voice lesson; 1 to 3, operatic coaching; 3 to 4, Italian lesson...
Last week, Interior Secretary Harold Ickes gave the go-ahead for a $1,400,000 drain project over three miles long, which he hopes will eventually free $200 million of water-covered zinc-lead and manganese ores.* The tunnels will tap 80 large workings, some 700 smaller mines and claims, and will drain off most of the ten billion gallons of water at a rate of nearly nine million gallons...
...Hallowe'en motif was used for decorating the building and the wives and husbands provided entertainment for the affair. Mrs. Charles Van Voorhis sang several numbers to the accompaniment of planist Ens. Hubert Donaldson; a 12-year-old girl, Elaine Burke, performed tap and acrobatic dancing numbers; and a musical trio was accompanied by 1/c Yeoman Howard Locke. It included Mrs. Ben Hardy, Mrs. Earl Canfield and Mrs. Lee Mills. Ens. Jack Reichart was master of ceremonies...
Mathematics Show: 1300 men are needed to stand the 13 Company Dog watches up to Sept. 22. However, the 257 men available for watch duty, multiplied by 13, show that 3341 men are on tap...
Served up with showmanship, it made a jolly evening. In the orchestra pit a lusty Army band fiddled and blew. Between playlets, enlisted men did smart tap dances, takeoffs, tricks. The playlets themselves varied in tone and quality : the two lightest were the two best. Pfc. John B. O'Dea's Where E'er We Go was a lively stenographic report of talk in barracks, with some good cracks tossed in by the stenographer. Corporal Irving G. Neiman's Button Your Lip was a comic free-for-all about dazed rookies, daffy rumors and the presence...