Word: tapped
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Dancing and entertainment will be continuous from 8 o'clock to 1 o'clock. The entertainment will include, among other things, a student quartet, rendering well-known airs; an old-time minstrel in Bavarian costume; a clever little six-year old danseuse performing an intricate tap-dance on a drum...
Once upon a time a very brilliant young men or woman wrote a scenario on the life of human beings who were cooped up in a very interesting sort of existence, i.e. backstage momentum. Tap dancers, squawky voices, the show must go on; songs and pasty-faced adolescents, the show must go on; it must...
...also told us that he paid $400 for his fine single suite, and that on returning to see his old diggings the next year he found that as a room in Winthrop House it now cost $440. Looking around carefully for improvements he found a new hot water tap on the tub, a new binge on the door, a stronger bulb in the chandelier--nothing more, nothing less...
Last week Hindu Shankar was back in New York dancing with every one of his slippery muscles. Again he had with him Simkie. a Frenchwoman almost as sinuous as himself, and nine Hindu musicians who sit tailor-fashion on the floor, tap swiftly and intricately on odd-shaped drums, thrum delicately on queer little fat-necked Hindu guitars. This week Shankar starts out on a tour which will take him to New England, then through the Midwest to the Pacific Coast, back through the South. In all he will give 85 performances, this season's record number...
...short, squat, bowlegged manifestation of dignity is waddling up Mass. Avenue towards the Square. He probably stops at the sign of Billings and Stover; for this is midafternoon, and the Professor must tighten his belt with the traditional milkshake. Emerging, he will puff out his lips, tap his black cane contentedly on the sidewalk, and roll on his way. Pausing a moment, he will reach into his pocket, pick out the cigar he had not smoked during some faculty meeting and give it to the blind news dealer. Again the puff, the cane, and the bow legs swing into action...