Word: whitely
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...spook pursued Senator George Higgins Moses of New Hampshire through the corridors of Chicago's refined Blackstone Hotel one day last week. It was an aged, feeble spook, supposedly laid to rest nine years ago. It had many black hands, many pairs of big, white, rolling eyes. It sought the Senator as a supplicant, begging for rest...
...sunburned girl in a bathing suit, her ankles ringletted with bells, danced in a Manhattan ballroom last week a dance that few white men had ever seen before. To a slow orchestral accompaniment she pounded barefoot on the floor, bowed low, bent back, made gestures as of sowing grain, beseeching fertility. Lining the walls on three sides sat 80 interested men and women. Some were young, some were white-haired, most were matronly looking women and burly, oldish men. Fascinated, they began to beat the rhythm with their programs, then one by one they rose, joined the dancer...
Master Vizay. President of the society is white-haired, mustachioed Rudolf W. Vizay of Manhattan. For 46 years Dance Master Vizay has taught dancing to the cadets at the U. S. Military Academy. While others taught them to be soldiers, he has taught them the gentlemanly graces of the square dance, lancers, waltz, one-step. For years he discountenanced the two-step. Frigidly he frowned on the fox trot when it appeared, though now he says: "It is just as possible to dance a fox trot with dignity and propriety as it is to dance a waltz." He abhors exhibitionist...
...West Point, Dance Master Vizay is not popular. The cadets, though they like dancing with girls, think there is something sissified about taking dancing lessons. Their dancing uniform is a white shirt, grey trousers, black belt...
Though no inkling was given at Geneva of what the prime minister would say, White House correspondents understood last week that substantial Anglo-U. S. agreements, had been reached on the following points...