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Word: waltzed (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Barefoot Girl. The cellists had quietly wooed the woodwinds in the opening bars of Weber's Invitation to the Dance, and the woodwinds had answered softly to the climactic bar 23, when the invitation is over and the waltz begins. Suddenly from the left wings of the stage bounded a dark-haired, barefoot girl in black jersey shirt and slacks-in perfect time she lightly leaped across the stage, past the harpists, past the second violinists, behind the bent back of Maestro Toscanini, in front of the first violinists...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Invitation to the Waltz | 4/30/1945 | See Source »

...been removed, Toscanini the Temperamental stood indecisive, holding up one hand while he mopped his balding head with the other. Then he turned back to the musicians, and there was deep laughter in his eyes. He raised his baton, looked quickly over the orchestra and said, "Well, the waltz...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Invitation to the Waltz | 4/30/1945 | See Source »

...tiny apartment strewn with Toscanini photographs and record albums, the dancer, 26-year-old Helen Faville, a student of Ruth St. Denis and Ted Shawn (see below) said "You see, I am spiritually married to [Toscanini]. When he began directing the waltz . . . I could sense him saying 'Now'-and I was ready to dance...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Invitation to the Waltz | 4/30/1945 | See Source »

Against the poorest field of a war-poor indoor track season in Cleveland's K. of C. Mile, Gunder Hägg stepped to the front at the three-quarter mark, lasted just long enough to win by a yard in 4:16.7, waltz time. He had one more chance on the schedule to hit his stride ? at Buffalo this week. His fans wondered if the speedy Swede hadn't just come over for the ride...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Hagg's Legs | 4/2/1945 | See Source »

Besides supplying background music for the show, the orchestra, led by Emory L. Chaffee, Rumford Professor of Physics, will present a four part solo including the Dance of the Electrons, Harmonic Analysis, the Drag Loop Waltz, and the Pulse Promenade...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Radar School Will Hold Memorial Hall Dance | 1/19/1945 | See Source »

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