Stenographers and telegraphers could take down information at rates up to 130 words per minute, whereas a writer with a pen was limited to a maximum of 30 words per minute ( the 1853 speed record ).

Stenographers would take down the sermon as it was delivered and Spurgeon would then have opportunity to make revisions to the transcripts the following day for immediate publication.

Browder moved to Kansas City and was employed as an office worker, entering the AF of L union of his trade, the Bookkeepers, Stenographers and Accountants union.

Naked girls danced in the chancel of the Abbey, the youngest and seemingly the most innocent being chosen to read a sermon filled with veiled depravities.

They consisted of a new arrangement of `` Nutcracker '' excerpts danced stunningly by Irina Kolpakova and Mr. Sokolev, with a large ensemble ; ;

they danced on the sand till your blood got hot and danced with them.

On hearing that God had blessed Obed-edom because of the presence of the Ark in his house, David had the Ark brought to Zion by the Levites, while he himself, " girded with a linen ephod ," " danced before the Lord with all his might " and in the sight of all the public gathered in Jerusalem — a performance that caused him to be scornfully rebuked by his first wife, Saul's daughter Michal ( 2 Sam.

Latin / Rhythm dances are commonly danced to contemporary Latin American music, and, with the exception of a few traveling dances ( e. g., Samba and Paso Doble ), couples do not follow the line of dance but perform their routines more or less in one spot.

Fertility ritual again was important, in part perhaps connecting with the waxing power of the sun, symbolized by the lighting of fires through which livestock were driven, and around which the people danced in a sunwise direction.

If the sets are short to medium length the caller will often try to run the dance until each couple has danced with every other couple both as a 1 and a 2 and returned to where they started.

In 1584, the pastor and chronicler Balthasar Russow in his Chronica der Provinz Lyfflandt ( 1584 ) wrote of an established tradition of setting up a decorated spruce at the market square where the young men " went with a flock of maidens and women, first sang and danced there and then set the tree aflame ".

The style is very condensed, with many mistakes, possibly as a quick reminder to people who had danced the dances before and knew exactly what the terms meant.

Brown celebrated his status as an icon by appearing in a variety of entertainment and sports events, including an appearance on the WCW pay-per-view event, SuperBrawl X, where he danced alongside wrestler Ernest " The Cat " Miller, who based his character on Brown, during his in-ring skit with The Maestro.

In 1977 Kain stopped dancing, but resumed again in 1981 with the National Ballet of Canada, where she danced for a further 15 years.

She is one of the few dancers or actresses who has danced with Gene Kelly, Fred Astaire, Mikhail Baryshnikov, and Rudolf Nureyev.

In 1991, Abdul embraced advertising and starred in a popular Diet Coke commercial in which she danced with a digital image of her idol, a young Gene Kelly.

It consisted of a " chorus " figure unique to each dance which was danced alternately with a standard series of up to ten " changes ", which were simple figures such as a right hand moulinet ( star ) common to cotillions in general.

The American historian Retha M. Warnicke writes that Anne was " the perfect woman courtier ... her carriage was graceful and her French clothes were pleasing and stylish ; she danced with ease, had a pleasant singing voice, played the lute and several other musical instruments well, and spoke French fluently ... A remarkable, intelligent, quick-witted young noblewoman ... that first drew people into conversation with her and then amused and entertained them.

In the video, lead singer Sharleen Spiteri danced the tango with Rickman: the clip was nominated for Best British Video at the Brit Awards.

Ravel began work with impresario Sergei Diaghilev during 1909 for the ballet Daphnis et Chloé commissioned by Diaghilev with the lead danced by the famous ballet dancer and choreographer Vaslav Nijinsky.

** Maypole, a tall wooden pole with ornaments, like ribbons, that is danced around

During the concert's finale, she spontaneously danced on stage with a band of African percussionists.

If most figures are danced around the set, with one or more couples visiting the others in turn, the couples are likewise numbered around the set.

Céilí dances may also be danced with an unlimited number of couples in a long line or proceeding around in a circle ( such as in " The Walls of Limerick ", " The Waves of Tory ", " The High Cauled Cap ", " Cross Reel " or " Bonfire Dance ").

Maria Tallchief and Erik Bruhn, who danced the `` Nutcracker '' pas de deux, were also seen in the Petipa-Minkus pas de deux from `` Don Quixote '', another brilliant showpiece that displayed their technical prowess handsomely.

They danced the paxam wildly at night, the war dance, and dipped their arrowheads in the venom of rattlesnakes and rode their horses in swift maneuvers, firing their few guns in unison at some indeterminate signal.

The basic step is danced in a face-to-face (" closed ") but staggered position ( i. e., the lead and follow are chest to chest, but their orientation to one another is offset in such a way that the feet are not toe-to-toe but alternate, like the teeth of a zipper ).

The swingout ( the basic step of Lindy ) is danced in a position often described as someone about to sit on a stool, thereby bringing their center point of balance closer to the ground.

Jane Austen's niece Fanny danced quadrilles and in their correspondence Jane mentions that she finds them much inferior to the cotillions of her own youth.

The dancers, to please their lovers the more, dropped their clothes and danced totally naked the nicest entrées and ballets ; one of the princes directed the delightful music, and only the lovers were allowed to watch the performances.

" They leapt and danced in their armour: " For this reason the Phrygians still worship Rhea with tambourines and drums ".

Often, the masquers who did not speak or sing were courtiers: King James I's queen consort, Anne of Denmark, frequently danced with her ladies in masques between 1603 and 1611, and Henry VIII and Charles I performed in the masques at their courts.

Thus, farmers and their families danced vigorously to ensure a good harvest.

They were said to have been present when mortals danced in honor of their brother, Tau-Titi.

Having danced the slot repeatedly, the couple " has a claim " on the area, and other couples usually cooperate and establish their own slot parallel with the dancers.

Along with their brothers ( minus Jermaine ), La Toya and her sisters sang, danced and performed skits.

Two ( referred to above ) were entitled " Songs for a Shuttered Parlour " and " Songs for a Smoke-Filled Room " and were vaguely lewd and danced around their true purpose, such as the song about her husband's " clock " not working.

" Then He Kissed Me " was the opening song to which Elisabeth Shue danced around her bedroom in Adventures in Babysitting ( 1987 ); it was the song in which Ray Liotta and Lorraine Bracco enter the Copacabana on their first real date in the movie Goodfellas ( 1990 ); and it was featured during the episode ' Homer and Marge Turn a Couple Play ' on The Simpsons ( 2006 ).

Skirts rose to just below the knee by 1927, allowing flashes of leg to be seen when a girl danced or walked through a breeze, although the way they danced made any long loose skirt flap up to show their legs.

Nineteenth-century New York slaves shingle danced for spare change on their days off, and musicians played what they claimed to be " Negro music " on so-called black instruments like the banjo.

As a carry-over from their music hall days, Eric and Ernie sang and danced at the end of each show, although they were forced to abandon this practice when Morecambe's heart condition prevented him from dancing.

From a young age she danced, and she practiced in a room that her parents arranged for her in the basement of their house.

The styles are mostly danced in either open embrace, where lead and follow have space between their bodies, or close embrace, where the lead and follow connect either chest-to-chest ( Argentine tango ) or in the upper thigh, hip area ( American and International tango ).

As a climax, " the tarantulees, after having danced for a long time, meet together in the chapel of Saint Paul and communally attain the paroxysm of their trance, ... "... the general and desperate agitation was dominated by the stylized cry of the tarantulees, the ' crisis cry ', an ahiii uttered with various modulations "".