Word: urchins
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Director Levy is now conducting a frantic search for a "retired soft-shoe artist out to make a fast buck" to teach Rettenberg a passable routine, He says that urchin street-dancers, "if they have a flair," might be considered as a last resort...
...knew was that the Queen was the mother of her country; motherless Master Wheeler made up his mind to see her. So past the Windsor Castle guards he slipped one foggy November night, into the castle yard, and then, startlingly, down into an open coalhole. When the grimy urchin eventually groped his way upstairs and surprised the Queen at her dinner table, she forgot her composure sufficiently to shout "Great Heavens...
...shows a dishevelled, drunken, and discouraged Negro MP sprawled on a pile of rubble wistfully playing his harmonica for an Italian urchin. He falls asleep, and the boy steals his shoes. Waking, the MP chases the child to its bombed-out home, where, confronted by the sight of utter poverty and despair, he can only turn and flee back to the city, leaving his shoes and his anger behind in the ruins...
Both in & out of jail, Blanco has endeared himself to his people with his songs and coplas-short four-line verses on popular themes. A Caraqueño recalls: "Late one night about five years ago, we were sitting in a beer garden, drinking and listening to an urchin singing. A man wandered in from the street and sat down with us. For the urchin's song, he improvised a copla, and the boy tried to make one up, too. Then the man improvised verse after verse for an hour-about each of us, about the beer garden, about...
...Whitman designed her bright colors in elaborate motifs, gave each motif a name. Examples: a yellow ticker tape tangled with prancing red devils, called "Ticker Tape"; a naked urchin facing a dark-green background of cactus, called "Cactus Also Needs Water." (There are also a few less discreet themes which have to be kept under the vest in polite company.) For snob appeal, Mrs. Whitman printed only 30 dozen of each design, with her crested monogram on each...