Word: brummagem
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Othello (Mercury; United Artists) has all over it the stamp of Orson Welles's brummagem genius. Is there a file of soldiers with spears or a brave display of banners? Depend on it, the camera will catch them sharply etched against...
...private self-sufficiency in all things has been exploded; his complacent expectation of unchecked progress has been overwhelmed by social disorder and private discontent; his confidence in Rationality has been shattered beyond repair. To what, then, does he cling nowadays? To the feeble hope, ordinarily, of some sort of brummagem Utopia of creature-comforts, characterized by equality of condition, uniformity of life and thought, pervasive state regulation and the obliteration of traditional morality...
...effort to brighten up austerity-ridden Britain, the Southern Region of the state-owned railway system devised a pub-on-wheels (bar car) which was supposed to be very quaint. The outside of the car features leaded windows, cream panels, false brickwork and fake timbers, and the motif of brummagem antiquity is carried on inside. One of the pubs-on-wheels was in service last week on the Atlantic Coast Express and seven more were being readied. They will have names like "The Bull," "The Dolphin," "The Green Man," "The White Horse...
Miss Winsor's brummagem novel, glowed the Dispatch, is "the most famous book of modern times. ... It has been banned in more countries and in more places than any other novel ever published...
...familiar to Broadway for a generation, with her hard little face and her soft, flabby hips. Theatre needs all the expert make-up and massage that Playwrights Bolton & Maugham know how to apply, all the stage presence and vivacity that Cornelia Otis Skinner brings to the role of the brummagem heroine. Even so, it's not very pleasant...