Word: badly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Suave and distinguished Dean of the diplomatic corps though he is, Sir Esme's action aroused great displeasure among other ambassadors and diplomats in Washington. They thought he had set a bad example, had endangered the corps traditional immunity. Desks were pounded, voices raised, in secret protest against the British Ambassador's effort to be diplomatic...
...Ripon the chief object of political veneration was the one-room schoolhouse in which Bovay held his meeting. The building was later occupied by George W. Peck, author of Peck's Bad Boy and one-time Governor of Wisconsin...
...leave out is even more pained in his heart than those left out. Sympathy is a bad Cabinet maker...
...trial denouement the little boy accused of murdering his bad stepmother is cleared by a device proving that she was killed by her lover. Typical shot: Mickey McBan, baby soprano, singing "My Daddy's the Best Daddy...
...strong voice somehow manages to make trashy melodies sound like folk-songs. She makes even more noise than usual in this picture but without the effect she gets when she is closer to her audience. She is handicapped by her role as a night-club hostess, by bad songs, by a ridiculous story about her priggish daughter's love-affair with a bibulous millionaire. Long before the rich young man apologizes, the daughter stops being snobbish, and Miss Tucker spreads her thick pink arms to embrace both of them, it is apparent that Honky Tank is one more grotesque...