Word: tap
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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When the "Tree of Hope" (supposed to provide an immediate job for any actor who touched it) was knocked down on a Harlem street corner where it grew, Tap Dancer Bill Robinson joined the frantic crowd that tore it to splinters; trying to save it, he salvaged two chunky hunks. / / Dated to sing this week at a ball at wealthy Mrs. Herbert Shipman's plushy villa in Newport is her new neighbor, Gertrude Niesen, chatelaine of the Oelrichs mansion. / / Violinist Yehudi Menuhin, 24 and twice a father, won his appeal to Washington for draft deferment as a family...
...shyly at first, then with growing confidence, plugged the V campaign. He urged the people of the occupied countries to mark the letter everywhere, even on the backs of German officers. According to reports that leaked out in a few places, they actually did. "He told people how to tap it out in Morse Code, three dots and a dash, recommended it as a signal for calling waiters, knocking on doors, blowing auto horns, bugles and train whistles. Soon that tat-tat-tat-too was heard all over Europe. He told them to call for Beethoven's Fifth Symphony...
...concluded: "You are asked to join a disciplined army. It is a strange army, but one to which it is an honor to belong. It is an army which the Germans fear. . . . The Germans will not drown out the knocking of fate, however loud they beat. For when they tap out the V they are merely signaling their own impending doom. We shall hurry it as much...
...brains of Britain to serve on the show's permanent panel, and plenty of careful research goes into the program. Among the experts: Sir William Beveridge, Master of Oxford's University College; Historian Charles Kingsley Webster; Laborite Francis Williams; Birmingham University Economist Philip Sargant Florence. Also on tap are Government bigwigs such as Alfred Duff Cooper, who supplied for the first Answering You show an explanation for Britain's failure to bomb the Rumanian oil fields...
...down the phone and tap with your foot on the floor, diminuendo. That is Nosey going away to find the doctor. You may breathe naturally now and think the matter out. After a suitable interval you tap on the floor with your foot again, this time crescendo, pick up the phone, and (a) gripping the nose as before: 'I'm sorry, the doctor isn't in at present. Can I take a message, Mum?' or (b) in your own voice: 'Hullo, Jones, about that match on Saturday...