Word: jitterbugs
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...started churning his arms as if shadowboxing, while rotating his hips like a girl trying to wriggle out of a tight girdle. But it transformed rock 'n' roll from a noise on the transistor radio into a teen-age style. For the first time since the decline of the jitterbug, teen-agers had a new dance, and soon, at Manhattan's Peppermint Lounge, the famous and near famous discovered its uninhibited joys. Fashion reacted dexterously. To provide freedom of motion, dress designers shortened skirts and loosened waists to turn out what soon came to be known as the discotheque dress...
...Henry Ford II was putting on a high-kicking jitterbug exhibition with his wife. At last Anne Ford said: "Henry, I think it's about time." Meyer Davis' boys blasted out When the Saints Go Marching In (but young Edsel refused to dance), Auld Lang Syne and Goodnight, Ladies. Charlotte and some friends drove off to the Ford place for a sunrise breakfast, and her father, whose other Daughter Anne will make her debut next year, declared jovially: "It's a good thing I don't have five daughters. I'd go broke." Then...
...Crimson line may be the Lions' "muddle huddle," which must be seen to be understood. The Yalies reportedly watched movies before last week's game of a New Haven sandlot pickup game and were ready to thwart the unusual Columbia formation. The Bulldog line chose not to jitterbug with the flankers and split ends, but rushed right in to stop the backfield...
...Johnny Mercer or the Charleston of the Roaring '20s. Well, if you weren't what we call a square, you would have had your "teenage fun" with these artists. It was your generation (with all respect) that broke away from the slow ballroom dance to the faster jitterbug, big apple, Charleston...
...University of Utah Stadium, 8,000 young Mormons in blue skirts and white blouses. Spanish costumes, tangerine and black jumpers or pastel formals romped and whirled through a two-night program of waltzes, fox trots, folk dances, tangos, rumbas and square and round dances and even some "toned-down" jitterbug steps...