Word: trot
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Time came for the first dance. A nine-piece orchestra struck up a fox-trot in the charity ball room; in the diplomatic ballroom an orchestra of strings played a waltz. There was no confusion. The diplomats did not hear a single ribald chuckle of jazz; the charity strutters were not bored by the supplications of fiddle strings. Reporters asked Dr. Heyl questions. Said he: "The partition is made of hair felt, supported by thin boards of sugar-cane fibre, and the musical sounds become tangled and lost in this wilderness of hair and fibre. Hair, fibre and similar pliable...
...right time. Think as few original thoughts as possible. It's collegiate to bull the prof. into a B when you rated a D. It's collegiate to sleep in lectures, crib in exams, copy themes, and get by. It's collegiate to prefer an Afro-American fox trot to a Beethoven sonata. Ah, by all means let's be collegiate. None of the herd will raise shocked hands and say begone miserable, radical, pink socialist...
...Dartmouth invasion, the fourth since the war, will start this afternoon when 35 players from Hanover trot out onto the Stadium turf for their final practice before Saturday's big battle...
...enter this class a horse must trot a mile...
...Prince of Wales will not surprise the American public, for headlines and rotogravures and little private tales have long since generalized the popular association of "dancing", "frenzy", and "prince". In spite of the rumor that the Prince's visit to America was just another publicity attempt of the Fox-Trot Association, the newspapers spread the reports of his fad for dancing through the world, with the result that his loyal subjects in South Africa decided that his visit could be fittingly celebrated only by examples of the closest approximations to his favorite sport. And since the heads of the Zulu...