Word: toeing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Cleveland is in the main stream of things modern and smart. Cleveland applauded importantly two years ago when Doris Humphrey of Manhattan's Dance Repertory Theatre, lecturing at the art museum, called the ballet "an artificial type of toe-dancing." German Dancer Mary Wigman brought to Cleveland her stark rhythms, her "rich speech of the body." Semenoff, intensely devoted to the oldtime ballet-school style, muttered that she was "devoid of grace, devoid of soul." He at least would make his pupils worthy of the old Imperial School. But his pupils, who had once included many a rich...
...esthetically-minded mother, who on her death left her daughter with relatives in New York. Little Halcyon, under the guidance of her governess, a spiritual Mrs. Rosenfeld, soon blossoms into an infant poetess, has her own little sacrosanct blue chair in which she composes "Us on Tip-Toe by the Freckled Beach," and the even more famous "Lines to My Lover in Hell." When Halcyon's father, a hearty retired sea-captain, comes after her he is forced to wait with a delegation of Halcyon's admirers in the anteroom. He determines by hook or crook...
...election behavior in the past to be altogether convinced. Possibly Nominee Hoover would say something ambiguous about Prohibition in the campaign which would open the way for Senator Borah to tip-toe back to the President's support not on the platform. Indiana's sage old Senator Watson summed up: "Senator Borah in the campaign will be where he always has been-supporting the Republican ticket...
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...Agency, Mo. Jim Gidden, 88, pained by the second toe on his right foot, put his foot on a board, drove nails between the toes to hold them apart, poised a putty knife in the first joint of the pained toe, hit the knife with a hammer. After treatment by a doctor, Jim Gidden put the right second toe in a jar of salt water...