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Word: tapped (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...session lasted only four minutes. It consisted only of a prayer and an adjourning gavel tap. It was, however, the first time in history a woman ever presided over the U. S. House of Representatives...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: First Time | 10/7/1929 | See Source »

Today's practice will be the final stiff workout before the men start tapering off for the opening game, only a light drill being on tap for tomorrow and a short signal drill filling the bill on Friday. With the line practically picked only the four backfield positions remain to be filled. Definite announcement of the eleven starting players will be made tomorrow...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: HORWEEN GIVES MEN STIFF HOUR SESSION | 10/2/1929 | See Source »

Evelyn Kinder, as a young widow, does some good dancing and stirs up more than the emotions of Billy McIntyre, the sixteen year old. One of the brightest spots in the cast is provided by Martha Morton and Bobby Jarvis who do some clever tap dancing and sing, among other things, "Button Up Your Overcoat". Other snappy tunes are "I Want To Be Bad", and "My Lucky Star". You'll like "Follow Thru", we wouldn't fool...

Author: By R. C., | Title: THE CRIMSON PLAYGOER | 9/26/1929 | See Source »

Last week Tapper Newsome expertly tapped for the delegates. He combines the tap with the Charleston, the Black Bottom, the fox trot. He is working on a combination tap and flicker which, he says, should be a rage...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Dance Masters | 9/9/1929 | See Source »

...Each year on "Tap Day" at Yale (third Thursday in May) four telephone lines are laid from the "tombs" of the four senior societies to four unknown rooms on the "old campus" of Yale College so that potentates in the "tombs" may know how successfully the tapping is going for their society. Under the elms, 60 desired men are chosen, the telephones removed, the tomb-to-room connections severed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Fortunes in Faces | 9/9/1929 | See Source »

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