Word: waltzed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...anything but gay. If it were the former it would have to be fast-moving and tuneful, since by definition a musical comedy is both of these. But instead of restricting itself to one mood the picture tries to combine the gay lightheartedness of the City of the Waltz with the sad impecuniosity of Franz Schubert, the unappreciated genius...
Last week at the Diamond Horseshoe, Mae Murray again began dancing the Merry Widow waltz, with Georges Fontana of the sleek '20s dancing team of Moss & Fontana. The featherweight toast of the 1908 Follies has long since moved into the middleweight division, but as she swooped, swirled and was flung through the air the house came down, and Billy Rose knew that he had a waltzing hit and the nostalgic smash of his career...
...middle-sized battler with an adhesive patch on his forehead. He introduced himself as Dr. Karl Becker, 42, metal-type salesman, and admitted protesting to the café management that it was unpleasant to hear an English tune repeated. He said he had asked for a German waltz and that Mr. Earle, unknown to him as the U. S. Minister, had then called him a "dirty Nazi" several times and finally struck him with a bottle. Dr. Becker said he had retaliated-but didn't say how-and that Minister Earle had thereupon retired to an alcove and thumbed...
When Puerto Ricans celebrated his induction into office, stocky. Pennsylvania Dutch Governor Guy J. Swope decreed no congas or rumbas at the reception in the ancient La Fortaleza-nothing more venturesome than a waltz. Reason: WPAsters readying the floors for the occasion had put on such a high polish that a pre-inaugural visitor slipped and broke...
...bunch of old ladies." He bawled out Dr.J. Peerman Nesselrod for offside piccolo peeps. Thanks to Dr. Stock's business like drilling, in the orchestra's 20th-birthday concert the businessmen tackled Dvorak's New World Symphony and a sheaf of shorter pieces (including a Symphonic Waltz by Papa Stock) with a precision which other amateur groups could well envy...