Word: groucho
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...building that prejudiced me against Lant's book. Virtually all of my predecessors as President of The Crimson were asked to join the Signet, and I hoped to emulate the example of one of my favorite mentor. Francis J Connolly '79, who answered the invitation in the words of Groucho Mars. "Any club that would have me as a member I wouldn't want to join." Alas, the powers that be at the Dunster St. fortress may have divined my intention, or (more likely) deemed me insufficiently literary. At any rate, I was never invited to join Robbed...
...subject to another every hour or so, allowing themselves only ten minutes to muster each case. Success at on-topic demands fetishistic research, note cards by the hundred gross and the rhetorical felicity of an armored truck. Off-topic debate, by contrast, is meant to be a cross between Groucho Marx and Daniel Webster. It rewards insult, parry and bluster. The judges' instructions for the Princeton tournament, for instance, emphasize that "witty (and only witty) heckling is encouraged...
...Duke of York's Theater toward her two-time former husband Richard Burton, 56. Burton, who was giving a reading from Dylan Thomas, cooed back: "Say it again, my petal. Say it again." The lady complied, and lo, with all the eye-rolling gaucherie of a Groucho Marx-Margaret Dumont coupling, LizanDick were, gasp, together again. She was in London for the West End run of her Broadway hit The Little Foxes. At a lavish 50th birthday party thrown in her honor at a Mayfair nightclub, the pair toasted each other with champagne and by evening...
...Neill has been blessed with a strong complement of actors and singers in the lead roles, but only two have a crucial element that earns them special praise. Tom Uskali as the Pirate King rivals Groucho in his mastery of greasepaint-mustache manipulation but never descends to slapstick. Uskali's perpetual air of bemusement gives lines like "our revenge will be swift and terrible" a wonderful screwball appeal...
Mann would have withheld his cool wrath from the Nazis in his letter to the University of Bonn. There would have been no greeting from Emerson to Whitman "at the beginning of a great career"no Groucho Marx to T.S. Eliot ("my best to you and your lovely wife, whoever she may be"). Had St. Paul decided to speak instead of write, the New Testament would have become as sounding brass or a tinkling cymbal...