Word: sashayed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Both statements have lisped from the pale, thin lips of Bee County's Sheriff Robert Vail Ennis. And both statements have been roughly true. Day or night a lady could sashay unmenaced up Beeville's streets, past the cream stuccoed Kohler Hotel, the Blue Bonnet Café, and the two-story buff brick jail where Sheriff Ennis lives with his wife and daughter and keeps evildoers under lock...
...original colonies throughout the land, acquired many a variant in technique and nomenclature. But everywhere the dance has a caller, an inventive, leather-lunged, cool-headed master of ceremonies who calls out the figures-swing your partner, dose-do (dos-a-dos or back to back), allemande, chassez (sashay), promenade, etc. As anyone knows who has ever tried it without prior training, a "set" of three different uninterrupted squares can be a confusing experience...
...square dancing, in many another locality, square dances spread from town halls and country fairs to roadside juke joints. Today there are organized square-dance groups in many a city, including New York, El Paso, Chicago and Colorado Springs, where Lloyd Shaw is a particularly zealous propagandist of the sashay. In Massachusetts, an Extension Specialist in Community Organization and Recreation has trained 2,000 young people to call figures, spread their knowledge to some 150,000 others who never do-se-doed in their lives...
...largest in the Occidental world. But that was not enough. Sculptor Milles wanted the bird in his statue to move and sing. With the help of engineers from Rockefeller Center's Museum of Science and Industry, he contrived a clockwork mechanism to make the bird flap its wings, sashay back & forth, and open its beak, and a phonograph mechanism to play a record of bird-like music...
...unpleasant. There were some rather crude members of the audience at the Metropolitan who whistled at certain sequences built upon her specialized sort of appeal, but it is hard to see why. While it is true that she has learned from Busby Berkeley, or perhaps his best friend, to sashay her hips around while walking down the street, the fact remains that she sags in the wrong places, and that she never looks more than sultry, which is only remotely related to heat. This isn't to say that we don't all think Annie is a great girl...