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"Wilson Banned Ball Fearing Turkey Trot," is a headline story in today's New York Times. According to the report, the Inaugural Committee was told that the president-elect (Woodrow Wilson) wants to cancel the usual Inaugural Ball because he fears "there would be indulgence in the turkey trot, the bunny hug and other ragtime dances and thus provoke what might amount to a National scandal." The paper reports that the committee agreed to scrap the soiree.
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