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Word: waltzed (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...make no boasts but our outfit, consisting of a blind fiddler, a competent cornetist and deponent at the cabinet organ or piano, as the case happened to be-used to go out in the country to farm dances. . . . Mostly we played square dances, though we had two or three waltzes-'The First Kiss Waltz,' 'The Cornflower Waltz,' 'The Skaters' and 'Where, Oh Where, Has My Little Dog Gone?' There wasn't a note in the lot. We all played...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: A Sage Looks at Swing | 5/20/1940 | See Source »

...with a buxom armful of gently protesting but finally surrendering cornfed, Walnut Valley gal in your arms, to the slow and formal threnody of the waltz, a fellow kind of felt he was of some importance. . . . The tunes tangled in one's dreams for days; and the pressure of a warm hand-and even if it was a little sweaty and sticky it was young and ardent -might easily linger through life...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: A Sage Looks at Swing | 5/20/1940 | See Source »

Last month union troubles threatened to kill American Jubilee off, but were finally ironed out. When the Fair opened last week, American Jubilee opened with it. Supercolossal it is: on a 300-ft. outdoor stage, in a blinding light, over 300 people march, waltz, sing, clown, wave flags, ride horseback, bicycles, automobiles, to the crashing of a tremendous band. Washington is inaugurated, Jenny Lind warbles, Lincoln delivers the Gettysburg Address, Lillian Russell & Diamond Jim Brady roll up to Rector's in a victoria, T. R. leads his Rough Riders, and in a stand-up-and-cheer finale...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: New Show in Queens | 5/20/1940 | See Source »

...Coronation March from "The Prophet"Meyerbeer *"The Moldan" Symphonic Poem Smetans *"To A Wild Rose" MacDowell *Walls Seene from "Faust" Gouned *Prelude to "Lohengrin" Wagner *Scherso from "A Mid Summer Night's Dream" Mandelssohn *Overture to "Poet and Peasant" Suppe *By the Beautiful Blue Danube," Waltzes Waltz *Song of the Volga Bargemon Arranged by Gazounov *Pomp and Circumstance Elgar

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: AT THE POPS | 5/10/1940 | See Source »

...Dance orchestra: Wayne (Waltz) King (for the sixth time...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Noses Counted | 4/29/1940 | See Source »

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