I saw him through the window of my study doing some kind of a shimmy with the shovel.
"Tom Swift and his Electric Locomotive or, Two Miles a Minute on the Rails"
Victor Appleton
Ignore, old dame, such pleasures as The shimmy and "the Bacchus Jazz"; Your presence with the maidens jars- You are the cloud that dims the stars.
"Something Else Again"
Franklin P. Adams
The one about Granny dancing the shimmy."
"A Damsel in Distress"
Pelham Grenville Wodehouse