Word: gamut
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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...Italian Government erected at huge expense the entire forepart and bridge of the battleship Puglia, complete with searchlights and a working gun turret. Here Signore d'Annunzio fires eccentric salutes when not busy writing verses on small slips of paper bound like a check book. Inside the house every gamut of furnishing is run from monkish asceticism to regal luxury. Describing his amazing do main the will of Poet d'Annunzio continues...
Miss Evelyn Brent plays the role of the cabaret hostess. She twitters up and down the gamut of human emotion, from smiles and choking sobs to playing fast and loose with a whole, orchestra and the doorman thrown in for good measure. Only she, a detective, and the audience know that underneath it all she's a good girl. And despite the novelty of plot and histrionics, the picture doesn't get over...
...balcony of Juliet is a witness-box on which most good actresses have at one time stood for final appraisal. In her trial, Miss LeGallienne ran a conscientious gamut of flippancy, catlike nervousness, passion, despair. Donald Cameron's Romeo was comely but lethargic...
Both these recoveries obtained considerable publicity soon after they occurred. I published scientific accounts of them in an ornithological journal, and I have no less than sixty clippings cut from various newspapers and other periodicals dealing with them. They run the gamut from the New York Times and the Boston Transcript, through the Christian Science Monitor and sundry farm journals and the like, to the New York American and the tabloids, the last of which headlined the first recovery as ''Lindy's only rival a three months old baby...
...describe the homely adventures of two Negro boys (Amos is high-voiced, nervous; Andy is deep-voiced, domineering) who operate, with one cab, the "Fresh-Air Taxicab Company of America, Incorpulated." They lead humble love-lives and club-lives ("The Mystic Knights of the Sea"), and run a whole gamut of perplexities and predicaments not too exaggerated to be recognized by their listeners. They are supported by a host of supernumeraries, but they produce all these voices themselves, including that of an occasional dog. So intimately concerned do their audiences become with the careers of Amos 'n' Andy...