Word: waltzed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...President received two gifts last week: 1) an autographed photo of the late Frederic Knight Logan, modernizer of The Missouri Waltz (one of Harry Truman's favorite songs); 2) an old Sioux pipe of peace, said to have been smoked by Chief Crazy Horse when he decided (after the Custer massacre in 1876) to surrender and return to the reservation...
...gifts were ill-timed. The six-month waltz of Congress with the Missourian in the White House was definitely over. Democrats (notably Southerners) had boldly walked off the reservation and joined Republicans on the warpath. Last week the House Ways & Means Committee (14 Democrats and ten Republicans) voted 18-to-6 to reject the President's reconversion proposal: unemployment compensation up to $25 a week for 26 weeks. Then the Committee voted 14-to-10 to shelve further consideration of aid to the jobless, including the bill the Senate had chopped out of the Truman recommendations (TIME, Sept...
...does Mr. Strauss Goes to Boston perk up as a period piece; the festal splendors of the Jubilee, the starched manners of Boston, the suave elegances of Vienna get barely a nod; even the sets and costumes lack lure. The Waltz King's own music has been reduced to a minimum and revamped to no good end. Most of the tunes in Mr. Strauss are by Robert (Zwei Herzen im Drei-Viertel Takt) Stolz, and the best of them are not more than agreeable...
Sirs : President Truman is serenaded with the Missouri Waltz (TIME, July 30), but I'll bet he would grin all over if he was greeted with I'm Just Wild about Harry! from the famous colored revue, Shuffle Along...
...first act, though long, was enjoyable, highlighted by Miss MacWatters' capable singing of the "Laughing Waltz," a difficult but novel arrangement of the Die Fledermaus motif. A lyric, "Who Knows," was the only outstanding original song and is destined most likely to fall into the clutches of the radio. The second act, getting off to a boring start and failing to attain the standards set by the first, featured ballet routines well danced by Harold Lang and Babs Heath. In a stirring finale Mr. Rigaud gave a ridiculous performance of Strauss conducting a 1000 piece orchestra, a chorus...