Word: tap
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Bill Robinson is the Phidias of tap dancing, and there is such humanity in his mere presence that his acting is neither here nor there. Fats Waller & Band, richly aided, tonsils and all, by Singer Ada Brown produce a blues in a Beale Street joint which, if it inevitably falls short of absolute genuineness, is a fine restoration by Grade-A archeologists. The dancing Nicholas Brothers, younger and more agile by some decades than the great Robinson, stage a volcanic family eruption...
Voice of Warning. No one except the Chinese knows how many there are of these little primary posts. The secondary posts are all linked together by telephone lines. Here, at certain secret points like Mickey's, U.S. radio stations have been set up to tap the secondary and flash warning of raiders to American fighter posts in the hinterland...
...Beer, because it is food, drink, and medicine to me, my Bowels work regular as clockwork, and I think that is the Key to health, also lightening affects me a lot, I get such a thirst from Lightening, and full of Pins and Needles, if I drink from the tap it's worse, Beer makes me better the more I drink better I feel, neither does it make me drunk, when a Boy a horn of Beer before Breakfast was the foundation for the day." Of such plums, and many a pebbly fact and figure, Mass-Observation...
...Spacious kitchens, designed as a single unit, will be equipped with pedals to control tap water, mechanical dishwasher sterilizers, vertical broilers (to broil steaks on both sides simultaneously...
...Philadelphia's Academy of Vocal Arts. Corporal Harrold himself sang Don José. All other male roles were also sung by sweating Fort Hancockers. The Fort Hancock band blasted out a Carmen medley in lieu of the usual overture. Private Lanni Russell hurled himself into an interpolated tap dance (music not by Bizet...