Word: trot
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Bamu, a practical type, replied, "My brother Aliu has a bad toe." Bamu is contemptuous of her husband's pretensions, and apt to trot back to Mama's hut when he runs out of money. But Johnson loves her dearly. Even the thought of her makes him break into song...
...hounds in your picture will be moved off at a steady trot by a few short notes on the horn, when huntsman is ready to go draw the next covert...
...Tune (Georgia Gibbs; Mercury). Like Sam's Song and Elmer's Tune, this new novelty implies that the American male likes nothing better than a bouncy, mildly monotonous fox trot...
...Budapest monthly Muvelt Nep (Cultured People) laid out for its readers the Hungarian Communist line on dancing. The waltz and polka are "traditionally democratic." The tango, fox trot and English waltz, though "reflections of the capitalist decline . . . cannot be classed with American dances. They may now be danced with taste." But the samba, swing, boogie-woogie, rumba, conga and the like "are tools of aggression let loose by the bosses of America against human culture and progress...
...remarks are original and funny; several of his scenes are brisk and entertaining. But the play as a whole suffers badly from a frantic mixture of styles (all the way from George Abbott to Barrie) and from a sameness of subject matter. The "guests" at the Cloisters can only trot out their obsessions; the old lady can only defy and deceive her stepchildren. And the staging, which might have given the play a nice airy unreality, makes most of it noisily blunt...