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Word: blore (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Edward VII adventuring in the U. S. This, of course, meant crinolines; and humor, unfortunately, to match. Pretty tunes and pretty Ivy Sawyer contributed gently. Raymond Hitchcock, infrequent player in Manhattan of late years, developed ingenious theories on the sex of the sardine; was aided ably by Eric Blore, an ass, very bally. The indomitable Mrs. Thomas Whiffen (who first appeared some 50 years ago as Buttercup in H. M. S. Pinafore), danced spryly to an old-time waltz...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theatre: New Plays in Manhattan: Oct. 24, 1927 | 10/24/1927 | See Source »

...theatrical will conclude correctly that it is a farce, that it deals in marital problems with an engaging indelicacy, that it smartly amusing. Added footnotes must contain the intelligence that Miss Bordoni sings four songs with her customary success; that Bruce McRae plays her leading man; that one Eric Blore, a recent acquisition from London, does the ultimate silliest as a silly Englishman...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Magnolia | 9/10/1923 | See Source »

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