Word: waltz
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When a public dance hall named Roseland opened on Broadway in 1919, smart young people had recently deserted the waltz for the foxtrot, were just beginning to master the delicate nuances of the shimmy. Sam Lanin and his Ipana Troubadours were on the bandstand, thumping out such Ziegfeld Follies hits as Mandy and You Cannot Make Your Shimmy Shake on Tea. Since that distant New Year's Eve, generations of stag-line Romeos and their girls have bunny-hugged Lindy-hopped, Charlestoned, big-appled black-bottomed and jitterbugged under Roseland's star-studded ceiling...
...most repulsive record. The hero, admitted sad sack, liar and cheat, comes out all right because, by golly, the Lord is on his side. He is prompted in his wobbly confessional by a sanctimonious, echoing female, and goaded by a whining girls' trio in a sickly waltz...
Backfire. In Chicago, after he burgled the Waltz Inn, got $6.95 and a .25-cal. automatic, Charles J. Walsh took the loot to a friend's house, accidentally shot himself in the leg while gloating over the gun, confessed all to cops who arrived to investigate the ruckus...
...cocotte and a poet, the poet and an actress, the actress and a count, and the count and the original prostitute. This merry-go-round of sex is attended by an aloof interlocutor who explains that he represents the audience, and it revolves to the tune of a haunting waltz by Oscar Strauss...
JEAN-BAPTISTE CAMILLE COROT rode to fame in 19th century France on his ability to produce a vision of dappled Elysian fields populated by maids dancing under ever blue skies. But 20th century taste has preferred the pyrotechnics of the impressionists to Corot's blue and silver waltz. Beside figures painted in hot, expressionist colors, Corot's milk-white shepherds piping to their sheep were considered as unsatisfying as a diet of lily stems...