Word: trots
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Henry Ford, realizes its shortcomings. But no one, except Mr. Ford, is quite so absurd as to suggest a return to the awkward clownish movements of a few years back. The company that performs with Mr. Dunham demonstrates conclusively that barn dances, at least, must never supplant the fox-trot and the new waltz. There have been periods of graceful polished dancing when rhythm and ease and picturesqueness gave color and beauty to the ballroom. But evidently Mr. Ford has never heard of them...
Using two saxophones in the orchestration, developing at times a rhythm "allegro a la fox trot," the composer, W. Franke Harling, has created an English opera of powerful originality. The matter is unpleasant, but the art, the intriguing harmonies, are often sublime. Certainly he has created dinner-talk for a season...
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...