Word: two-step
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...Author Gilbert Patten, he decided to emulate Hero Merriwell also. He got a scholarship at Denver University. While he was there, Jack Dempsey came to town. They boxed an exhibition match. Eagan gave Demp sey a hard punch on the jaw. "He [Dempsey] hummed the tune 'Everybody Two-Step,' keeping time with his whole body. . . . Then something fell on my head! It felt like a rafter from the roof. . . ." In the War, Eddie Eagan blacked both eyes of a top-sergeant named Boyle in his San Francisco training camp. He went abroad after the Armistice, fought in Franco...
...dancing instructor must be versed in all kinds of dancing. Gone is the cotillion master whose repertoire was complete with the schottische, polka and waltz. To be up-to-date the schools must teach the ballet, the toe-dance, the classical and acrobatic dance, the fox trot, one-step, two-step and waltz and the tap dance. Leading exponent of the latter is Billy Newsome, vaudevillian, onetime teacher for Ned Wayburn, Broadway showgirl trainer. The tap dance is in vogue. "Society," says Tapper Newsome, "is taking it up. I've tutored the Vanderbilts and the Astors and they love...
...Vizay of Manhattan. For 46 years Dance Master Vizay has taught dancing to the cadets at the U. S. Military Academy. While others taught them to be soldiers, he has taught them the gentlemanly graces of the square dance, lancers, waltz, one-step. For years he discountenanced the two-step. Frigidly he frowned on the fox trot when it appeared, though now he says: "It is just as possible to dance a fox trot with dignity and propriety as it is to dance a waltz." He abhors exhibitionist Negro dancing, believes it to be fit only for the stage...
...kills," Madame Pavlowa turned to the much-discussed spiritual effect of modern dancing. "It does not raise you as dancing should,--it kills you. I do it myself, one-step, two-step, and I see the people in these big hotels, like where I stay, the Plaza, is it? When you do it as they do, you do not go up, you go down, do you not feel that yourself? And the music this jazz! It is too noisy, too harsh. It might do for the grotesque, for clowns and acrobats. It has a rhythm...
...Seniors, to the last man, in ponderous exuberance at their celebration, have unwrapped their flannel trousers from the mothballs in which they have rested from the Freshman Jubilee in '14, and have practised the strange new dance steps which have come in since the polka and the two-step went out of fashion. They do not say much, but from veiled boasts it is to inferred that they expect to show these youngsters of '18 and '19 a thing or two about how to celebrate in real fashion. The senorial gown has been thrown aside, and these mages...