Word: tapping
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...himself particularly interested in Divisional Examinations--or any other sort for that matter. It has always been his endeavor to make of himself, so far as possible, a cultured individual, rather than a more or less perfect example of the plumber's art, which should, when the right tap is turned and the right chain pulled react in the customary and appropriate fashion. Of course, that will not provide him with a sheepskin, and he shall probably have to content himself for some time with goat hide...
...record as saying that said dancing is if anything more flat-footed and uninteresting than that of past Pudding shows. H memory fails not, there was one good step; this was too bad, as consequences was to make the rest seem just so much more heavy. An individual tap dance by Pliny Jewell '30 was crowned with success, and made one wish for a few more like...
When Dr. Schacht proceeded to dwell again, last week, on the palpable iniquity of expecting Germany to pay Reparations for 62 years, the five fingers of Croesus Francqui's right hand were observed to tap impatiently on the Committee table. As the Governor paused for breath the Belgian leaped up, fire in eyes...
...hour and ten minutes Hearts in Dixie takes to run. The voodoo doings, the cotton pickings and Bible-shoutings are just what a certain class of people, educated to consider Negro life "colorful" and "primitive" expect of the race, just as people of another class expect vaudeville patter and tap-dancing. The pathos, based upon the low temperature of the ground enclosing somebody named Massa, is repetitious. All is redeemed, however, by the humor of a gaunt, pop-eyed blackamoor named Stepin Fetchit, cast as "Gummy," laziest of blackamoor husbands. The unpretentious story, genuinely moving at its best...
...taken by G. L. Leach '29. Others having leading roles are J. W. Bethell '29, F. W. Blatchford '30, D. C. Lewis '30, and J. P. Davis '30. A chorus of 16, trained by a Boston dancing school, is to humor the audience with several tiller numbers. Several featured tap-dancing parts are also included