Word: abruptly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...cast; taste rather than expense in scenery; personality rather than prodigality in production. Three exceptionally adept players-Beatrice Lillie, Gertrude Lawrence, Jack Buchanan-are pleasantly and persistently occupied throughout the entertainment. A moderately voluptuous and not particularly agile chorus of English girls is intermittently employed. The scenes are peculiarly abrupt, much of the humor novel, the music adequately mild...
...scarcely a gray streak in it. ... Not long after her marriage, I think it was, she was giving a big luncheon party. In the middle of it, someone called her up to say that an important issue had suddenly developed in the Senate. Grabbing a hat and hurling an abrupt apology at her guests, Alice left the astonished crowd to finish the party without a hostess...
Siki showed nothing to warrant the serious attention that has been accorded his abilities. He is a wild, awkward slugger. When his blows do land, they lack abrupt decision. Ills chief merit is ceaseless courage...
...Significance. Mr. Leacock is a humorist but not a wit?he seeks for and obtains the abrupt and hearty laugh rather than the oh-so-sophisticated smile. But while occasionally stereotyped and sometimes a trifle repetitious he maintains on the whole a pretty high average of chuckles to the item. He is probably the most popular living humorous writer in English, for his work deals in the main with matters of commonplace experience made unexpectedly ludicrous by the angle from which he attacks them...
...move as calmly and placidly as a still day in August, proved the focus and battleground for a certain group of di- verse, opposed personalities, related by accidental ties of blood or fate. The secret, incessant clash of these personalities, now and then flaring out into active conflict as abrupt as the glitter of lightning, serves as the theme of this lengthy and intricate first novel...