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...graceful John Bovingdon is no ballet dancer; an uneasy press has generally described him as a religious, rhythmic, or "monodrama" dancer. Harvard-man Bovingdon (1915, magna cum laude), the baldest dancer since Harald Kreutzberg, toured Russia and the Orient in the 1920s and '30s, wearing a long beard, knickerbockers and sandals...
...early 1920s Ausborn fought against the thick-skulled youths lapping up the words of a pallid Austrian paperhanger, but by 1928 he was convinced that Hitler was destroying "everything that was decent in Germany." Ausborn left for Canada, to bring up his family in a free country...
...Charles Beard wrote an Economic Interpretation of the Constitution, father to a generation of muckraking biographies of the Founding Fathers, and one of the main bases of the economic and political beliefs of the liberals of the 1920s, out of which grew the pragmatic liberalism of the New Deal. Now, at 68, a white-haired, rugged-featured Yankee living on a farm near New Milford, Conn., he is the dean of American liberal thinkers...
...Ornithologists insist that the Modock and the Oozlefinch derive from a common ancestor. The Modock's first migration to the U.S. was noted early in the 1920s, when the Quiet Birdmen insisted that they were no relation to either the kiwi or the Modock. The kiwi's natural habitat is New Zealand...
What the concert aimed to do was to revivify a form of popular music which had lately become much less popular. In the 1920s, when jazz flourished in Chicago, there used to be great jam sessions in hotspots after closing time. By 1936 hot jazz had weaned a commercially successful but adulterated form of itself: swing. Today, it is commercial swing und the smooth, symphonic arrangements of name bands that make big money and attract jitterbugs...