Word: trot
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Which last two genres suggest his true ability. Mr. Butler is a gentle, observing, whimsical soul who has taken to literature for the same reason people take to playing the base viol. In creating, and he sometimes does, the atmosphere of trot fishing, poker playing, whimsy, he amuses. But the amusement has the solidity and permanence of prune whip. Also one always realizes that prunes are the basic element in the concoction...
...Tucker employed an English type of phaeton, two high-steppers that could trot a mile in less than 2.30 min., and a small Negro "tiger" (coach-boy) up behind. On rainy days he used a closed carriage. He kept his sister in reserve and had to fall back on her one evening to keep up his lock-raping continuity...
...same type of performance with which we are now able to fill houses all over the country. Of course it will always be less popular than modern jazz for it can never become a common type of dancing. Popular dancing such as the modern fox trot must be essentially simple so that it can be learned easily...
...record globe trot was made by Linton Wells, and Edward S. Evans in 1926. Their time was 28 days, 14 hours, 86 minutes and 5 seconds...
Fondly read and trot to every blooming class...