Word: awkwardness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...anecdotes generally used as a framework for the less profitable shows of minor burlesque circuits. Miss Miller's frustrated ambition to sleep in a bed beside her husband's on her wedding night might have been funny in spite of everything but for the dialog-line after awkward line recited in singsong and divided from the next by little fences of silence. Twin Beds is partially redeemed by one tune, "If You Were Mine" and by a few seconds of Zasu Pitts as a half-witted servant-girl. Typical shots: a drunk caught in a revolving door; Miss...
...fight patrons to see last week's Milk Fund bout between Heavyweights Max Schmeling and Paulino Uzcudun in the Yankee Stadium. Herr Schmeling and Senor Uzcudun are richer by $72,500 each, or 40% of the total proceeds. Herr Schmeling is richer by the title, "Champion of Europe," which awkward Senor Uzcudun previously held in a vague way. Fight patrons are richer only by the semi-satisfaction of a hope, the half-answer of a question...
Chairman Requa got the conference off to an awkward start when he said: "If and when the Government has made it possible for the industry to cooperate and conserve and that co-operation and conservation are not forthcoming, then no one will be more insistent than myself in urging rigid government coercive regulation." The word coercive brought the industry to its feet in instant protest...
Stepping Out, by Elmer Harris, is billed serenely as a "new and modern comedy," a nice distinction which, regrettably, is wasted. A farce dealing in less clean than lavatory fashion with the awkward infidelities of two married satyrs among Hollywood lupanars, Stepping Out is neither new nor modern. When, in fact, the pretty specimens with whom Tubby Smith and Tom Martin have been misconducting themselves appear to demand blackmail, Tubby produces for the emergency a wisecrack which, though good, resembles many that have been heard before. "I thought you were nice girls," he complains, "not good, but nice...
Judging from the front pages of various Sunday prints it would seem that at least one engineer has felt and keenly resented the often heard references to greasy hands and awkward monkey wrenches. At least he is determined that the younger generation shall not follow in these same steps and has vigorously exhorted the graduating class at the Tech to change their collars every evening, presumably to rid themselves of the stains of honest toll acquired from too close contact with the machine age during...