Word: jitterbugging
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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Outside of Pyongyang's City Hall last week a young man with a jitterbug haircut tried to start a conversation with me. I asked my interpreter what the jitterbug wanted. Said the interpreter: "He says he wants rice, and that he will do anything you want him to do if you will give him some." I told the interpreter to tell the young man that I didn't have any rice, but that if he waited there, perhaps someone might come along who could give him some. If he waited there long enough, someone might even come along...
...Dangerous Life. In her new glory as "America's No. 1 Jitterbug" ("As a matter of fact," she says, "I couldn't jitterbug"), Betty worked up to $175 a week for Lopez. Then she quit him, though their contract still entitled him to 20% of her earnings. She went into a Broadway revue, Two for the Show, and got rave reviews...
...Selandia, with his pretty fiancée, 17-year-old Siamese Princess Sirikit Kitiyakara at his side. In Bangkok's downtown dance halls, where Siam's hepcats curve their fingers backward and dance the rumwong, the hit of the week was a song composed by the royal jitterbug Phumiphon himself...