Word: trotted
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Theme-song of Strike Me Pink is as exhilarating a fox-trot as the team of Brown & Henderson has turned out for some years...
When he had finished playing the studies and a less effective fox trot, Iturbi pointed out a tall blond man with a foxlike face sitting in a box. Robert Russell Bennett stood up and, for one of the rare times since he stopped playing every instrument in a boys' band in Freeman, Mo., faced an audience. In Manhattan for 13 years Russell Bennett has practised his trade behind scenes. He works for Harms, the music-publishers. When a songwriter like Jerome Kern or George Gershwin wants to put on a show he takes his tunes to Harms for Russell...
...into the room of an elderly acquaintance, Pito Gualto, stabbed him over the heart. He turned and stabbed Pito Gualto's nephew. Then Julian Marcelino, a slightly dazed expression on his small brown face, descended into the street and quietly, efficiently, went amok. Proceeding at an even dog trot, a knife fashioned out of a bolo (native blade) in each hand, he skewered an aged grocer as he stood in his store doorway, then an amazed bystander on the sidewalk, then three Filipinos in a row. People ran screaming in all directions. When Officer Gordon Jensen, returning from...
Unlike Runners Venzke and McCluskey, Ben Eastman never had occasion to trot about his business. His father is president of Southern Pacific-Golden Gate Ferries Co. and Spring Valley Land Co. At Stanford, where his brother Samuel Palmer Eastman Jr. is also on the track team, Ben Eastman majors in economics, plans to go to Stanford's graduate school of business. He belongs to Alpha Delta Phi Fraternity, an organization called Skull & Snakes, and the Board of Athletic Control. In May he was elected Captain of the track team. He has no special training methods. He eats what...
Fortunately Foreign Commissar Litvinov has an English wife, gay Ivy Low. She broke the Communist ice, whirled out upon the floor, heartened other Soviet wives to dance (badly). From a fox-trot the orchestra switched to a tango, then to a throbbing Cuban rumba. In 20 minutes scores of Comrades and their wives were cavorting like Capitalists. Later there were caviar, French champagne, rich Russian pastries. The revel continued until dawn. Said Premier General Ismet Pasha, on behalf of Turkish Dictator Kemal, "I and the whole Turkish delegation [34]; have an unforgettable impression of the magnificence of our reception...