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Word: whirlings (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Significance, nothing so hilarious as his Chain Store Daisy. Only once could a first-night audience, half drawn from Who's Who and half from the Social Register, roar with joy: when a packed stageful of Negroes shagged, capered, clapped, galumphed, jumped up & down in a great spontaneous whirl of excitement...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: New Musicals in Manhattan: Oct. 3, 1938 | 10/3/1938 | See Source »

...Friday night the formal dance at Dunster House will initiate the social whirl of the Harvard-Yale weekend. Claude Hopkins and his orchestra will play from 10 to 3 o'clock. Tickets are on sale this week during mealtimes in the Dunster dining room. The size of the dance will be limited to insure adequate dancing facilities...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: News from the Houses | 11/18/1937 | See Source »

...journalism, photography and advertising in the modern world cannot be summed up in a few words, because the influence of these three mediums is too far reaching in its scope. From the point of view of the undergraduate who contemplates "coming out of his shell" and emerging in the whirl of post-hour-exam celebration, no more valuable field of endeavor could be open...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: OPEN WIDE THE GATES | 11/9/1937 | See Source »

Approximately 1000 Freshmen are expected to enroll between 10 and 5 o'clock as secondary school graduates from all parts of the United States enter a week's whirl of conferences and meetings which will acquaint them with their new student life...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Harvard Says Hello to 1000 Freshmen; Class of 1941 Formally Files into Harvard's House Today | 9/24/1937 | See Source »

...biggest theatre. Sometimes the 75-piece Music Hall Symphony Orchestra plays almost prayerfully. Sometimes it lashes and groans through a hot, new delirium. The 46 young ladies in the Rockette troupe are equal to either occasion. They can move shyly and demurely in ballet tulle. They can kick and whirl giddily to shrieking brass. Exact, machine-like execution has made the Rockettes known wherever U. S. precision dancing is known and many a strict balletomane takes the organization seriously. New glory came last week to the Rockettes when Edmond Labbé, general commissioner of the Paris Exposition, picked them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Rockettes to Paris | 6/21/1937 | See Source »

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