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...would get chucked out of any English dance for pulling such a steal. Why, you can't rush a real stunner for a minute without getting broken up by some lad. It's a regular scrim! And I say, if you aren't careful do you know, you might trot away the whole night with one partner. On and off on schedule is our ticket. Lots better...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Visiting Britishers Annoyed by Lack of Shoe Polish and Polishers--"Cutting In" at Dances Seen as Dangerous | 1/11/1928 | See Source »

...sailors, too. Caucasian cavalry dashed by, their gleaming sabres at salute, their long black capes flowing behind; protection troops, wearing their round astrakhan caps, passed by, a little regiment of dwarfs, to the tune of the famed "Volga Boat song"; then came the Turkoman cavalry at a sharp trot, wearing their huge black shakos and great ponchos. Many of the civilian men and women wore weird costumes of the Middle Ages...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RUSSIA: Decennial | 11/21/1927 | See Source »

Washington particularly noticed Baker last week because, in all the talk about Democratic Presidential candidates, his name had been conspicuously inconspicuous. Yet if there is anyone in the late Woodrow Wilson's party who was not a dark horse it was Newton D. Baker. Dark horses trot out of obscurity. Newton D. Baker, though small and quiet, is one of the least obscure and most distinguished men of his time...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POLITICAL NOTES: Candidate Baker | 11/14/1927 | See Source »

Unimpressed, Patrolman Gallagher escorted Catcher Devormer, his sons, their toadies, to the police station. Soon he saw Catcher Devormer get in a taxi and set off for the Polo Grounds, saw Catcher Devormer's sons, jeering and sneering, trot back to their home. The judge had given a suspended sentence to the Devormers, pere & fils, had gently advised the brothers to play no more one o'cat in St. Nicholas Avenue, the catcher-father to interfere with no more officers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Catcher's Kids | 8/29/1927 | See Source »

Meanwhile the rich standards of the Grenadier Guards dipped and swept the ground in salute. Soon the Household Cavalry moved off at a smart trot. Through a lane between applauding hands passed two sovereigns who have little in common except that they both collect stamps...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Pomp of Impotence | 7/18/1927 | See Source »

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