Word: tappings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...school's benefit (with one local dealer donating three new cars as prizes) became one of Monterrey's big annual events. Grocers, butchers and other small merchants responded generously to campaigns aimed at giving all local business a stake in the school. With more than enough on tap to meet its 60% operating deficit, Tecnológico last week got a rousing boost from outside. In Mexico City, 600 miles to the south, executives in the U.S. industrial colony (including branches of General Electric, Westinghouse, Goodyear) opened a drive for $58,000 to boost the school...
Turn off the hot tap, turn off the cold; Water is precious, scarcer than gold, Remember the supply is very very short, Don't use a gallon when you can use a quart...
...instance, the tap dancing of Fred Astaire, who clicks his heels and tocs through several excellent routines. In the best of these he dances better while playing a drunk than most of the hoofers could cold sober. Throughout "Holiday Inn" Astaire plays a foil for Bing Crosby. In this film, a Paramount re-release, Crosby's voice and hairline are still intact. He sings an excellent selection of Irving Berlin tunes--"Easter Parade," "Be Careful, It's My Heart," and, of course "White Christmas." The result is like a greeting card: it has no art and no subtlety...
Wallach's other ground for challenging Father Feeney's right to receive GI Bill money is the "avocational" bar of the federal statute. "Tap dancing and ventriloquism have been ruled improper courses of study," he said. "I would argue that anyone who wants to make an avocation of hate should be obliged to pay for it himself...
Connoisseur Gaits. In the ring, the ringmaster called for a walk and Wing slowed down, though still strutting. Teater gave him a thank-you tap on the head. At the call for the "slow gait," Teater gave a twist on the snaffle rein and Wing moved into a gliding, four-beat amble...