Word: tap
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Players Club on quiet Gramercy Square, but when the Friars made him a member he took a troupe of stars on tour, raised the money to build a new club house. The Friars gratefully elected him Abbot. He came to recognize himself as the world's best tap dancer, best songwriter, best playwright. Privately he probably still feels the same way. The Song & Dance Man, produced in 1923, was not a great play but it was a very good one. People still sing his "So Long, Mary" and "Give My Regards to Broadway." A whole nation sang his "Over...
...just made from Cripple Creek, Colo.-"a good night's work if I do say so." Unknown to him, Miss Ona Munson, a flaxen-haired soubrette with a childish uncertainty in her voice, has stowed away in the cab. For her benefit the undismayed comedian does a complicated tap dance up & down a pair of Tom Thumb steps, sits down at a portable piano and sings the tuneful theme song, "Hold Your Horses," to his mare Magnolia. When he refers to Magnolia's heart of gold a flap opens in her side, displaying a large gilt heart...
...went Wrinchell again. After other spectators, including a woman who wielded her sharp-heeled slipper, had driven Jolson off, word buzzed through the excited audience that Ruby Keeler was upset because Winchell's new scenario, Broadway Through a Keyhole, was supposedly based on her career. (She used to tap-dance in the night club of the late Larry Fay, Manhattan gangster slain last winter.) Post-bellum comment...
Second central reservoir was Institutional Securities Corp., a mortgage pool which can tap R. F. C. credit up to $100,000,000. I. S. C. will offer one more ready market for mortgages, may ease the pressure for foreclosures in the New York area...
...average, so the Government's "allotment" to wheat growers would be 30? per bu. The other was that the U. S. consumes only five-eighths of its total wheat production, so the wheat grower would be paid on only five-eighths of his total crop. On tap in the Treasury was a $200,000,000 credit to get Domestic Allotment off the ground. Of this about $150,000,000 would be used for wheat. The Treasury is to get its money back by a 30? per bu. processing tax on wheat collected from millers...