Word: tapping
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Married. Al Jolson (Asa Yoelson), famed mammy songster; and Ruby Keeler, tap dancer; in Port Chester...
...embarrassed, a good man if somewhat stupid, was grossly insulted by laughter throughout his reading of the service. Bernard Paul, aquiline, and Amelia Hallbach, spade-faced, were the participants in the wedding. The master of ceremonies, best man and judge of dancers was impudent Bill Robinson, "the finest tap-dancer in the world." He strutted and clowned continuously, while bowing to friends who called out his nickname?"Bojangles...
President Walter Sherman Gifford of the American Telephone & Telegraph Co. summed up the results of the decision: "We are disappointed . . . but it will not make any change in our policy. . . . Tap ping or otherwise tampering with telephone lines is an unlawful trespass upon the property of the companies which they will continue to resist. ... An act of Congress, such as the Chief Justice refers to, would exclude evidence obtained by government agents in this...
...their vitality, theirs was an automatic existence. Octavia's frivolous hostess damns them as staunch Tories who nevertheless know nothing and care nothing about politics: "No one down here reads or writes. They eat, sleep, buy and sell horses, walk to the stables and back, tap the thermometer, fuss over their top boots, put ammonia in their baths; and such powers as they've got of conversation are exercised upon their stud grooms...
Blackbirds of 1928. Every small-time circuit travels upon the sometimes not so nimble limbs of its tap dancers. These are often the riff-raff of their profession; the finest tap dancer in the world is Bill Robinson, long a spot of interest on Keith's tours. His feet are as quick as a snare drummer's hands; in Blackbirds he has a double flight of five stairs which, when he trots up and down it, produces a rapid tuneless and delicious music. Bill Robinson makes the show; if he were on the stage more of the time...