Word: trot
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...jewels. Hostess Molotov, after careful thought, had done up her light brown hair in a knot at the back of her head, wore a black gown with full-length sleeves and a narrow white collar. As the orchestra, perched on a balcony of the ballroom, struck up a fox trot, the 500 guests paused awkwardly, looked questions at each other. Officially the All Union Communist Party frowns with Dictator Stalin upon dancing...
...heart-breakingly cool and distant as she strolled inside her white picket-fence of a Sunday afternoon. One remembers Fanchon, the exotic little product of great hotels and continental schools, who actually "were her hair up" and shocked the children's party with the new Bunny Hug and Turkey Trot and Slingo Sligo Slide. Those naive and incredible days of 1912 made a story that, in retrospect, has the quaint provincialism of "Cranford...
...picture when he set a new record. Chlentzos stood behind him now, patting the lower part of his back, repeating for the nth time the instructions about run, takeoff and rhythmical upswing which Coach Cromwell had discovered it was Graber's tendency to forget. Then Graber began to trot forward, slowly, easily: suddenly his body swung up, over the knot of people, poised above them for a second at a wildly reclining angle in midair. Then he straightened, shot clear, dropped into a limp heap on the sawdust pile. The crossbar, placed at the height for a new intercollegiate record...
...spite of unqualified discouragement from the University authorities and the Alumni Weekly, Victor has just contributed its bit toward cementing Yale-Princeton relations by publishing gratis an appropriately two-faced record with, obverse, a fox-trot arrangement of two Yale football songs and, reverse, a ditto of Princeton's Cannon Song March and Dean West's Triple Cheer, featuring. Mr. Hubert Prior ("Rudy") Vallee, ph.B. Yale '27. It was, we, gather, through the unwillingness, nay refusal, of Harvard to enter into a phonographic entente cordiale with Yale that we are permitted this unprecedented opportunity to enter the Valhalla hitherto occupied...
...their University Drag, slow fox-trot honors went to a mother & son, Mrs. Anna L. Keenan and Walter Keenan of Philadelphia, who described it as "a sort of Rudy Vallee foxtrot. . . . And don't call it the 'Varsity Drag,' please. It's the University, and a very dignified dance." Principal features are an erect body bent slightly forward and the slow drag of the feet from back to front after each step. Collegiate jiggers will dance it with a slight bend of the knee. Conservatives will do it with more dignity, legs straight...