Word: cleverly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...rather pleasant. Clark and McCullough, the sere and tested vandeville team, are largely responsible for it with their movietone comedy. The Publix arrangement "Topsy Turvy Town" is also a harmless show presented against a futuristic background. The left end from "Good News", if we remember the face does some clever hoofing in front of the ponies. This part of the performance is above the average...
...literature. We all know that it was delivered upon a most solemn occasion and was written to dedicate a National Cemetery for those who gave all on that great battlefield. There is nothing humorous in using such an address as a medium for alleged wit, no matter how superficially clever the parody may appear to the Ivy Orator himself. Many of us present in the Stadium that afternoon were grieved to hear a Harvard man make such a blunder. We were delighted that the elements reduced his audience to a minimum...
Just in time. Author Davis prevents his play from becoming a study of puppy love frustrated. Once more the problem of old Keith's circuit among suburban sirens is brought forward, to stay for a curtain which is as nearly satisfactory as possible. Of a sharp, clever cast, one of the pleasanter bits was done by Owen Davis Jr. as the younger Keith...
...producer, is only 20 years old. But Adam Opel began making sewing machines in Russelheim when Yankee volunteers retreated from Bull Run. Early in the 80's Founder Adam bought an English bicycle for his son, and in 1886 added a bicycle factory to the Opel works! Clever merchandizer, he knew selfconscious Germans would hesitate to appear ridiculous. Accordingly, he provided Opel halls where amateurs might learn to ride Opel bicycles. The Opel cycle factory is today the largest in the world...
...Antoinette was a lovely martyr in white dimity and ash-gold hair; Louis, her royal spouse, a wistful dullard who would have made an honest artisan. The worldly cardinal who passionately loved Antoinette nevertheless caused her miserable downfall because he was the dupe of a scheming court slut. This clever minx stole the necklace, implicated the queen in the scandal, but herself rode screaming and scratching to the Bastille...