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...ribed as a "very charming adventurer, very good looking, well bred and an excellent dancer". He lived at 18 Bruton Street in Mayfair, London (a pres... ...rk of all places - in a Sunday weekly called the "World". Following a crossword craze launched by a nascent publishing company called "Simon and... ...ord puzzles only in 1942. http://www.factmonster.com/spot/crossword1.html D Dance, St. Vitus Dancing manias - a form of mass hysteria - we... ... late as 50 years ago, during and after the second world war. The Italian folk dance, "Tarantella" is related to tarantism. It was played for d... ...o) was long - and wrongly - thought to be the cause of the irresistible impulse to dance. The victims, it was claimed, were trying to prance the ve... ...ut of their bloodstream. Other manic raves - such as "St. Vitus' or St. John's Dance", the names given to episodes of rheumatoid chorea - were ...

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...atch over his con- nections with women. M. le Chevalier says that an opera dancer often costs less than a court lady. Obtain informa- tion on that poi... ...where there are mar- riageable daughters, fair but portionless partners at dances, and young married women who find that time hangs heavy on their han... ...opera girl is an almost mythical being. As things are now at the theatres, dancers and actresses are about as amusing as a declaration of the rights o... ...box at the Vaudeville; an angel while she criticised the postures of opera dancers with the experience of an elderly habitue of le coin de la reine; a... ... It was all that he could say, so overcome was he. He cried, he could have danced; but he was afraid of losing his senses, and refrained. “Between us,... ...elaxed in favor of the greenhouse and garden. “The garden was the master’s craze,” Mlle. Cadot used to say. The master’s blind fondness for Joseph was... ... Mlle. Cadot used to say. The master’s blind fondness for Joseph was not a craze in her eyes; she shared the father’s predilection; she pampered Josep...

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...d-blow not heeded in his youth So shook his wits they wander in his prime— Crazed! How the villain lifted up his voice, Nor shamed to bawl himself a ... ...y God’s grace, he shall into the mire— Thence, if the King awaken from his craze, Into the smoke again. ’ But Lancelot said, ‘Ka... ... but at night let go the stone, And rise, and flickering in a grimly light Dance on the mere. Good now, ye have saved a life Worth somewhat as the cl... ...ang the happier day from underground; And Lady Lyonors and her house, with dance And revel and song, made merry over Death, As being after all their f... ...l make her truly my true wife. ’ Then, howsoever patient, Yniol’s heart Danced in his bosom, seeing better days, And looking round he saw not Enid ... ...pring, that down, From underneath a plume of lady-fern, Sang, and the sand danced at the bottom of it. And on the right of Balin Balin’s horse Was fas... ...ole by night to let the boundless deep Down upon far-off cities while they dance— Or dream—of thee they dreamed not—nor of me These—ay, but each of ei...

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...on’ except in the vulgar sense of an angry paroxysm. He durst as soon have danced a hornpipe on the top of the ‘monument’ as have talked of a ‘rapturo... ...ome chiefly from a class of busy people who care very little for ancestral crazes. Latin they have heard of, and some of them know it as a good sort o... ...t, each country as it grew polished at some cost of strength, carried this craze to a dangerous excess—danger- ous as all things false are dangerous, ... ...a, and of elaborate pantomime in the performer. Saltavit Hypermnestram, he danced (that is, he represented by dancing and pantomime the story of) Hype... ...d ruined the music). Finally, 5th, I am satisfied that Milton meant him to dance. The office of the chorus was imperfectly defined upon the Greek stag... ...iphonies should be sung, and another said. That he was also com- pelled to dance, I am satisfied. The chorus only sometimes moralized, but it always d... ...lized, but it always danced: and any actor, mingling with the chorus, must dance also. A little incident occurs to my remembrance, from the Moscow exp...

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...ering before men’s eyes a thaumaturgic versatility such as that of a rope- dancer, or of an Indian juggler, in petty accomplishments,— was a mode of t... ... the same authority it is which the British public of this day has for its craze upon the subject of English op- pression amongst the Hindoos. My uncl... ...ywhere a most superficial account. I said so; and my uncle, who had an old craze in behalf of the book, opposed me with asperity; and, in the course o... ...incipal servant, whom, perhaps, you seldom or never saw; the actual atten- dance upon yourself being performed by one of his depu- ties; and to this d... ...elism with the monotony and slight compass of human ideas. As the symbolic dancers of the ancients, who narrated an elaborate story, Saltando Hecubam,... ...that age, were arrang- ing themselves for one of the magnificent Hungarian dances, which the emperor’s court at Vienna had transplanted to the camp of... ...present, perhaps, the very hands were now visibly displayed for the coming dance, which in a few days, or even hours (so rapid were the movements at t...

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...echoes to the de- parting steps of invaders. She mingled not in the festal dances at Vaucouleurs which celebrated in rapture the redemption of France.... ...the unicorn, than are to the same pretensions in the lion our many popular crazes about his good- ness and magnanimity, or the old fancy (adopted by S... ...“But where,” and I turned to our own crew—“Where are the lovely women that danced beneath the awning of flowers and clus- tering corymbi? Whither have... ...owers and clus- tering corymbi? Whither have fled the noble young men that danced with them?” Answer there was none. But suddenly the man at the mast-...

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... must be stepping itself still. Isn’t there any heaven where old beautiful dances, old beautiful intimacies prolong themselves? Isn’t there any Nirvan... ...ed with Florence and what Florence was like. Well, she was bright; and she danced. She seemed to dance over the floors of castles and over seas and ov... ... the eve- nings—at any rate, whenever Florence did not call for his atten- dance. It shows the obviously innocent nature of the regard of those two th... ...sandwiched in at odd moments or took place during the social evenings, the dances and dinners. But I guess I have made it hard for you, O silent liste... ... the aspect of a prig. I mean that, if he played polo and was an excellent dancer he did the one for the sake of keeping himself fit and the other bec... ...as awful, that trip, and the private soldiers seemed to develop a suicidal craze. It got on Leonora’s nerves; she figured Edward, for the rest of that...

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...te in careful descent of the steps. This had the air of taking out Kate to dance; and Kate, at that same moment, answering to it by the gesture of a m... ...from which you infer, perhaps, that he was lunatic. By no means. It was no craze, under the influence of the moon, which possessed him; it was an idea... ...nded, shoulders. We really beg pardon for having laughed a little at these crazes of Coleridge. But laugh we did, of mere necessity, in those days, at...

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...uted compulsory vaccination for compul- sory baptism without a murmur. THE CRAZE FOR OPERATIONS THUS EVERYTHING IS on the side of the doctor. When men... ... other doctors who are denouncing the danger as imaginary and opsonin as a craze or a fad, obviously do so because it involves an operation which they... ... suffering, especially those involving bloodshed, blows, and laceration. A craze for cruelty can be developed just as a craze for drink can; and nobod... ...re, all disease. It forces all such charms on the doctors. THE VACCINATION CRAZE THUS IT WAS REALLY the public and not the medical profession that too... ...the grossest lies and superstitions which have disgraced the vacci- nation craze were taught to the doctors by the public. It was not the doctors who ... ...he fact that I was no more at a loss for private medical advice and atten- dance when I had not a penny in my pocket than I was later on when I could ...

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...a! la! la! Tra! lalala, la! la! la! Tra! lalalalalalalalalalala!’” And she danced about the room, snapping her fingers in- stead of castanets. “Don’t ... ...chen by sounds of revelry, and, stopping to listen, overheard the castanet dance (which reminded her of the emphasis with which Agatha had snapped her... ...l- erable to her, but they had their drawbacks, for good part- ners at the dances, and good performances at the spiritless opera and concerts, were di... ... manners among them- selves, and agreed to punish her by not asking her to dance. She thus got rid, without knowing why, of the attentions she cared f... ...but much less wealth, than they needed, admired her, paid her compliments, danced with her, but could not afford to marry her. Some of them even told ... ...enient remark it is always set aside as an expression of certain dangerous crazes with which I am sup- posed to be afflicted. When I point out to Sir ...

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...es were peculiar to Christ. A doctrine peculiar to one man would be only a craze, unless its comprehension depended on a development of human faculty ... ...s none of them except John, who throws over Matthew altogether, shares his craze for treating history and biography as mere records of the fulfillment... ...aphy as mere records of the fulfillment of ancient Jewish prophecies. This craze no doubt led him to seek for some legend bearing out Hosea’s “Out of ... ...pirit; that it is through this spirit that we evolve towards greater abun- dance of life; that we are the lamps in which the light of the world burns:...

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...ey may none the less treat very badly. And there is an extremely dangerous craze for children which leads certain people to establish orphanages and b... ...ll the excesses of lascivious cruelty. Yet the people who have this morbid craze seldom have any difficulty in finding victims. Parents and guardians ... ...l life, by out-of-door habits, and by frank neighborly intercourse through dances and concerts and the- atricals and excursions and the like, families...

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...its hideous crimes when crime is presented to him as part of his duty; his craze for work is more ruinous than the craze for drink; when he can afford... ...efore only neglected them until they were dead, after which they learnt to dance to their tunes with an easy conscience. For their sakes Germany stand... ...donment of melody, is to confess oneself an ignoramus conversant only with dance tunes and ballads. The sort of stuff a purely dramatic musician produ... ...o the 99 Shaw loftiest aspiration, can make symphonies without the aid of dance tunes. As much, perhaps, will be claimed for the pre- ludes and fugue... ...uty aimed at reminds Englishmen of the barmaids of the seventies, when the craze for golden hair was at its worst. Further, whilst Wagner’s stage dire...

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...anxious to read what I had to say on the subject, but among victims of the craze for collecting first editions, copies of privately circu- lated pamph... ...igures, whether exhibited as living pictures, animated statu- ary, or in a dance, are at their best not only innocent, but refining in their effect, w... ... innocent, but refining in their effect, whereas those actresses and skirt dancers who have brought the peculiar aph- rodisiac effect which is objecte...

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..., at least, in the minds of a large part of the race. One of these was the craze for Greek and Latin learning, and the other was a desire to hold offi... ...ed a “frolic,” in some cabin on the plantation. That meant a kind of rough dance, where there was likely to be a good deal of whiskey used, and where ... ...f inspecting the Negro exhibit and of giving the coloured people in atten- dance an opportunity to shake hands with him. As soon as I met Mr. Clevelan...

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...rans- gressing the ideal serenity; like votaries performing some religious dance before the gods, and, though in convul- sive pain or mortal combat, n... ...in or mortal combat, never daring to break the figure and decorum of their dance. Thus of the genius of 12 Essays one remarkable people we have a fou... ...e wayfarer had passed onward; a thought which poetry has celebrated in the dance of the fairies, which breaks off on the approach of human feet. The m... ...bout Edgar and Jonas and Almira, and who was invited to the party, and who danced at the dancing-school, and when the singing-school would begin, and ... ... and literatures, cities, climates, religions, leave their foundations and dance before our eyes. And yet here again see the swift circum- spection! G... ...ence of objection. The whole frame of things preaches indifferency. Do not craze yourself with think- ing, but go about your business anywhere. Life i...

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...take care to come again. But she has not, fortunately for her, allowed her craze for art to get the better of her common-sense. She married a prospero... ... Pres- ently a man emerged reeling, and at once began to execute a drunken dance, and to sing as well as his condition and musical faculty allowed. Ly... ...d watched in silence. Alice, following her example, recognized the drunken dancer as Mellish. He was followed by three men gayly attired and highly el... ...ts at really respectable fights. It’s safer than dancing; many a woman has danced her skirt into the fire and been burned. I once fought a man who had... ...were some danger of their stomachs falling out if not held tightly in, and danced round one another, throwing out and retracting their left fists like... ...ch of the so- lemnity of manner for which Frenchmen reproach English- men, danced stiffly and unskilfully. Alice, whose muscular power and energy were...

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... young lady jested, looking with a laugh at the antics of the artist as he danced. All at once she burst out laughing at something, and ut- tered a lo... ...Again they lost the road, and again the coachman got down from the box and danced round the sledge. The sledge flew along a dark avenue, flew swiftly ... ...ren said good-night and went off to bed. The examining magistrate laughed, danced a quadrille, flirted, and kept wondering whether it was not all a dr... ...rely longer. At six o’clock they had dinner, then they played cards, sang, danced; at last they had supper. The day was over, they went to bed. In the... ...strove after celebrity with every fiber of my being. T o be popular was my craze, so to speak. For the sake of it I studied, worked, sat up at night, ... ...e gentry, to fill up their idle time, had taught her to read, to write, to dance; he had had no hand in her bringing up. Only from time to time casual...

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..., “all I can do is to go. But I beg to state—” He paused. Ahab and Jezebel danced at his boots and made him look ridiculous. “You were picking my brai... ...slowly flow- ing Lea. No glory of raiment would be theirs, no ur- gency of dance; but they would be real nymphs. The chauffeur could not travel as qui... ...ly, and de- clared that it was “just like Helen” to lead her rela- tives a dance. “That is what we all say,” replied Margaret. “But why should it be j... ...hing is going strong now, it need not go strong for ever,” she said. “This craze for motion has only set in during the last hundred years. It may be f...

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...o the lodging-house Mauritania, together with Lubka, the latter, in accor- dance with the attendant Kartinkin’s advice, gave the said Smelkoff some wh... ...ir well-oiled hair; the merry tunes of the holiday hymns that sounded like dance music; and the continual blessing of the people by the priests, who h... ...king at the prisoners, who were all three fixedly gazing at him. Every new craze then in vogue among his set was alluded to in his speech; every- thin... ...ng with pleasure the evening when he first met Nekhludoff, and when he had danced so gaily, better than all the young people. “What can I do for you?”... ...rl—stretched out their arms, and with their hands clasped in each other’s, danced round and round again. “To-night they are going to be married here i... ...me straight from a ball) caught Clara up, and for a long time they turned, danced, screamed, drank. . . . And so it went on for another year, and an- ...

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...er ruin Of fatherland and people for thy sake! Ne’er may such wantwit valour craze my soul! Be mine to cherish wise discretion aye, A warder that shal... ...med of Zeus, Around whose mansion’s everlasting doors From east to west they dance, from west to east, Whirling the wheels of harvest laden years, Whi... ... Sang how the Nymphs in golden chalices Mingled ambrosia; sang the ravishing dance T wined by the Graces’ feet; sang of the chant The Muses raised, an... ...ld of toil was there portrayed. And there a banquet was, with pipe and harp, Dances of maids, and flashing feet of boys, All in swift movement, like t... ...shing feet of boys, All in swift movement, like to living souls. Hard by the dance and its sweet winsomeness Out of the sea was rising lovely crowned ... ...ms still upon her hair; And round her hovered smiling witchingly Desire, and danced the Graces lovely tressed. And there were lordly Nereus’ Daughters... ...d the Trojans’ hearts Who saw all through the town those portents dire: Fate crazed them all, that midst their revelling Slain by their foes they migh...

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...shionable society as you know it. What does it pretend to be? An exquisite dance of nymphs. What is it? A horrible procession of wretched girls, each ... ... as Prometheus; and the 20th century will run after this newest of the old crazes when it gets tired of the world, the flesh, and your humble servant....

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...itress, and neerer to the Earth Wheels her pale course, they on thir mirth & dance Intent, with jocond Music charm his ear; At once with joy and fear ... ...t, riding through the Air she comes Lur’d with the smell of infant blood, to dance With LAPLAND Witches, while the labouring Moon Eclipses at thir cha... ...e keep distance due, Dispenses Light from farr; they as they move Thir Sarry dance in numbers that compute Days, months, and years, towards his all ch... ... trembling leaves, while Universal PAN Knit with the GRACES and the HOURS in dance Led on th’ Eternal Spring. Not that faire field Of ENNA, where PRO... ...ots, loveless, joyless, unindeard, Casual fruition, nor in Court Amours Mixt Dance, or wanton Mask, or Midnight Bal, Or Serenate, which the starv’d Lo... ...e Firey Pillar and the Cloud God looking forth will trouble all his Host And craze thir Chariot wheels: when by command MOSES once more his potent Rod...

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...rds learning. High schools and colleges hold similar social events such as dances, concerts, and other community events. The events are usually sponso... ...ed the prom song “Remember Me,” the theme song from Casper, to him. We all danced around in a big circle together, wishing he were there. A few weeks ... ...right, like their predecessors, the New Kids on the Block. The group uses “dance-club pop, fresh-faced good looks, and sexy choreography to whip up th... ...roll music. The Beatles’ origin traces back to the growing British skiffle craze in the late 1950s, and they were mainly inspired by Elvis Presley. Th...