Word: byplay
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...heroine nervously tugs at her glove under cross-examination, the country, is told in a special edition. If the hero waves on the witness stand, pink-sheeted extras herald the indiscretion. With the skill of true playwrights, the reporters interlard the main action with willy bits of byplay between the lawyers...
...Sucettes." Meanwhile the Deputies continued their incredibly fatuous byplay. M. le Docteur Adolphe Pinard, Professeur a la Faculté de Médecine, Membre de l'Academie de Médecine, Officier de la Legion d' Honneur, Dean of the Chamber, arose and literally diverted his peers with a baby's "comforter." Said he in a fine burst of oratory: "For two years-two years!- have striven for the opportunity which is now mine. During that time and for years previously many of the infants of France have teethed upon a vile form of rubber nipple attached...
With this sulphurous byplay safely over, everyone barkened while Conservatives read hour-long extracts from volumes of constitutional law to prove that the King government was flatly violating every legal precedent in clinging to power. Needless to say, Liberals read out precedents for Mr. King's acts from other volumes. At length a furious discussion arose as to how many minutes, hours or days William Pitt remained away from the British House of Commons...
...byplay to National Politics took place last week in New York. Republicans and Democrats both held state conventions and nominated candidates for Governor. The situation was this...
...Profit for Pinchot. As usual in the solution of such strikes, there is political byplay...