Word: buskined
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Kissing Bandit (MGM) pokes some good-humored fun at the buskin-and-bluster heroes of costume melodrama. The picture itself is only a costume piece, with a little vaudeville thrown in. Its best features are the broad comedy by J. Carroll Naish, the sentimental songs sung by Frank Sinatra and Kathryn Grayson, and some lively Spanish dances...
...aria and buskin yielded to the sock and tassel. In 1854 someone rented the stage for an exhibition of live Indians. Pentland's Circus and then a group of Chinese jugglers followed. During this transition period touring features such as Zavitowski's Juvenile Ballet still played the Athenaeum. By 1868, though, only cheap variety shows appeared; and the name of "Old Howard," already in common use, was officially adopted...
...Migawd," groaned Mr. Brown, "that you should say that to me." For if any one man has an intimate knowledge of the genus hokinsoniensis it is he. From Bronxville to Winnetka and from Wellesley to Butte Heights he has trod the boards with a dinner jacket for his buskin and a water pitcher for his scenery. The immediate result of his expeditions was the spread of the gospel of the drayma; a less immediate but just as laudable one in his newest book, "Accustomed...
...more was heard of the matter. But apart from the brief appearance of Louis Armstrong and Benny Goodman in a minor extravaganza entitled "Swingin' the Dream," which caught at best a fleeting glimpse of Broadway, jazz and its exponents have not since been given a chance to ennoble the buskin'd stage...
...aria and buskin yielded to the sock and tassel. In 1854 some one rented the stage for an exhibition of live Indians. Pentland's Circus and then a group of Chinese jugglers followed. During this transition period touring features such as Zavitowski's Juvenile Ballet still played the Athenaeum. By 1868, though, only cheap variety shows appeared; and the name of "Old Howard," already in common use, was officially adopted...