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Word: waltzed (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Sunrise Strings. In Denver, Professor Wayne C. Hedges came out against the Army's classic reveille, declared: "Psychologically, the bugle is all wrong," recommended something in waltz time, on the violin...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Sep. 13, 1943 | 9/13/1943 | See Source »

...Bowery-ends. McSorley's has also provided a haven for Manhattan's literary transients-writers, newshawks, painters, poets (grateful Poet e. e. cummings once immortalized mcsorley's: "Inside snug and evil. ... the Bar tinkling luscious jigs dint of ripe silver with warmlyish wetflat splurging smells waltz the glush of squirting taps. . . ." The venerable saloon still has soup bowls instead of cash registers, gas lights over the bar, a rack of clay and corncob pipes for free smokes on the house. Under portraits of Lincoln, Garfield and McKinley is a brass plate: THEY ASSASSINATED THESE GOOD...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Bowery Botanist | 8/2/1943 | See Source »

...Dreibelbis judged a waltz contest last week at a service club, and proved to have a true judicial eye for smooth dancing. Dreibelbis is an export on the floor, in everything from the fox trot to the rumba...

Author: By Frank K. Kelly, | Title: Specialists' Corner | 7/9/1943 | See Source »

...cockeyed The Skin of Our Teeth started ten thousand arguments, sold a quarter of a million seats and won the Pulitzer Prize. Oklahoma!, musicomedy's least orthodox offering in years, was also its most charming and successful. As Rosalinda, Johann Strauss's 6g-year-old, waltz-drenched Die Fledermaus became a surprise smash...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: Not So Dim | 6/14/1943 | See Source »

...again. That's really the proof of being a wanted guest, only this time I decided not to lecture. I thought it would be fun just to have a conversation with a Harvard boy or boys. It was. Then I decided it would be fun to dance a Viennese waltz with one of them. Intrepid, he arrived on the stage first. That was understandable. He was six foot eight or so, and simply strode over the heads of the others. We waltzed I, being five feet tall in my high heels, literally didn't touch the floor. The boys were...

Author: By Sally Rand, | Title: "I'LL REMEMBER THEM," SALLY RAND SAYS OF HARVARD MEN | 2/10/1943 | See Source »

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