Word: trots
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...expected by winning his heats in the high and low hurdles without being extended. In the 100-meter event he was five yards ahead on the first hurdles and widened his lead at every other jump. In the 200-meter race he also won easily and finished at a trot. All the hurdles events were run from scratch...
...distinguished persons moved past the Throne with such rapidity that a Buckingham Palace flunky was overheard to say of His Majesty: "He fair had them going at a dog trot...
...Good." Dog trot is the tempo of the new reign, and last week Britons were about ready to take preliminary stock of it. Out from Court circles rippled rumors that thus far every member of His Majesty's Government who has had private audience has afterward been heard to say, in effect, "He's good...
There are times when the proceedings bog down to a somewhat tiring trot, but in general the situation are amply amusing. Barbara Brown has taken over Miss Gladys George's role and does it up in generous fashion. She coos, whimpers, dramatizes, wiggles, and occasionally slips into a very amusing deep-toned vulgarity of speech. Her language is not sufficiently secure to prevent her from "commuting with her soul," contrasting the interior of the house with the "ulterior," and being quite laughable indeed. George Blackwood plays Bud nicely and the rest of the cast is eminently satisfactory...
...before his enraptured public as a man among men. He wears a sailor suit with as much flare as he ever brought to a top hat & tails. He sings in his reedy voice three new Irving Berlin songs and he dances four times: 1) an eccentric fox-trot with knee-flips in a dancehall, where he and Ginger Rogers win the contest; 2) a parody deck drill on a battleship with a sailor chorus; 3) another foxtrot, with Miss Rogers in a crosstime routine; 4) a final ballroom number with her. For those who are tired of the hoofing...