Word: twists
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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After ordering off the press corps to ensure privacy. Queen Juliana clapped her hands like a schoolmistress to start the dancing. Beatrix danced happily with her beau. Her younger sister Irene twined and twisted indefatigably with students and German princes. Britain's comely Alexandra was seldom separated from Prince Karl von Hesse, 25, one of the many princelings vying for her favor. One of the smoothest twisters of all was Britain's Prince Philip. Queen Elizabeth also danced but. said Italian Bandleader Cosimo Gile, "she didn't do the twist or anything like it. She danced like...
Choruses of "Pop Goes the Wessel," "Coming Through the Rye," "Smoke Gets in Your Eyes," and several varieties of the Twist ushered the acts into the areas, where they received the shouts of "Take it off." (Or, in the case of one rather hefty near-middle-aged stripper, "Put it back...
...wasn't a needle at all. One of the group had bought a special pencil, was marking the backs of hands with symbols that would show up under the ultraviolet lamp used by a local casino to check admissions to the twist dance that night. The entrepreneur was doing a rush business. Regular admission price: $1.70. His rate...
...swarmed into town to roast in the sun, dance, guzzle beer, and "make out" (or, far more accurately, to talk about making out). On the beach a couple of fast-slapping guitar players started up a hot beat. Within moments, a score of college kids were doing the twist while cheering onlookers, some of them wearing sweatshirts marked "Property of Daytona Beach Jail" and "Stamp Out Virginity," raised their beer cans on high...
...dancing, reported Marion Javits. ''no one did the twist, and, although no one let his hair down, the dance floor was far from grim. The cha cha and the waltz were the favorite dances." The repast in the state dining room was dominated by two huge, brimming silver punch bowls topped with floating strawberries. "I asked Senator Hubert H. Humphrey if he thought it was spiked. He said, 'And how-with high-octane gas!' But attendants said one contained rum and pineapple juice, the other bourbon and apple juice...