Word: sweetly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Nobody Knows" Series) said in an interview printed last week by the New York Telegram. Theoretically, he was answering a similar interview with Publisher H. L. Mencken, whom he good-naturedly called "an actor . . . bad influence on young people ... a grand court jester ... a sad voice singing 'Sweet Adeline' in the speakeasies." Pungent paragraphs from Mr. Barton's interview follow...
...theatre is a dusty kennel, full of drafts and dust, scented forever with a sweet, unreal and sticky perfume, built of planks and plush, to house deceptions. Hoboken, N. J., is a squat and smoky suburb of Manhattan, a place where trains load and boats dock, where beery workmen lurch home along cobbled streets and where the world of art is chiefly represented by ancient and execrable examples of the cinema. Why then should anyone want to own a theatre in Hoboken, N. J.? Famed Author Christopher Darlington Morley (Where the Blue Begins, Thunder on the Left) knows, for last...
...letting his version of Broadway make such unadulterated whoopee. However, reviewer praises author as "a lusty fellow" who "writes with gusto" of Dixie Dugan "the hottest little wench that ever shook a scanty at a tired business man." Other characters are Dixie's devoted greeting card salesman-"a sweet boy, but he's so full of sediments;" her Argentine gaga, passionate Alvarez Romano; her sugar daddy, high-powered banker; her ghost writer on the Evening Tabloid. The jealous Argentine stabs the sugar daddy, the newspapers take Dixie up, the Evening Tab kidnaps her (offering a reward), and Dixie...
...certain connotation through its best exponents, Tom's Mix, Heeney, Marshall, Lipton and a bunch of other good skates belong; when the noble order gets a dud, he goes as Thomas, or Woodrow if a stuffed shirt, as Tommie if just too sweet. Lennon may hear drums say wum-wum but they always call me by name. Long may they beat and in the same time...
Said A. Forbes Milne, Director of Music at Berkhamsted School: "I am afraid that in these days girls do not want to be singing lullabies and 'Be Good, Sweet Maid.' They prefer 'The Vagabond' and 'Give to Me the Life I Love.' They gave a very indifferent performance of 'Virtue...