Crossword-Solution: CAKEWALK 8 letters, 27 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 21

And, in a sudden reaction of mad delight, he began to dance a wild jig in the middle of the room, a jig mingled with bits of can-can and the contortions of the cakewalk and the whirls of a dancing dervish and the acrobatic movements of a clown and the lurching steps of a drunken man.

The dancer's pose suggests the American "cakewalk" and her costume, the modern "hobble skirt."] PANTOMIME AND VAUDEVILLE AT ROME Pantomimes formed the staple amusement of the Roman theater.

But where music is concerned,--hands off! I will not suffer you to debase the loveliness of the world by heaping up in the same basket things holy and things shameful, by giving, as you do at present, the prelude to _Parsifal_ between a fantasia on the _Daughter of the Regiment_ and a saxophone quartette, or an adagio of Beethoven between a cakewalk and the rubbish of Leoncavallo.

THE CAKEWALK In smoky lamplight of a Smyrna Café, He saw them, seven solemn negroes dancing, With faces rapt and out-thrust bellies prancing In a slow solemn ceremonial cakewalk, Dancing and prancing to the sombre tom-tom Thumped by a crookbacked grizzled negro squatting.

Releasing her from this respectful confinement, he offered the invisible lady a gracious arm and walked up and down the room with a stateliness tempered to rhythm, a cakewalk of strange refinement.