Word: decorous
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...straw-hat circuit. Its jokes and patter are brittle, rowdy, funny and full of satirical special reference. A number of its people (most of them members of a permanent cast) grew up in show business with such bright youngsters as Danny Kaye and Betty Garrett. By & large, the costumes, decor and choreography are better than may be found in any nightclub and many theaters. Its smooth pace is interrupted only by a tedious five-minute commercial which not even the "muddle-talk" of old Radio Comedian Roy Atwell can speed...
This Very Earth reads as if it were written by a man under a deep spell, as if Caldwell himself were aware that something was the matter, and simply did not know what to do about it. Its prose has the glassy, elaborately monotonous decor of the language of hypnosis, beneath which the reader can sense the hysteria of someone trying to re-establish communication with the world. In what is obviously a rigorous act of will rather than the product of a freely flowing imagination, Caldwell puts his characters through his standard novelistic paces without once indicating what motivating...
...York's blizzard, most of the Yukon was enjoying crisp, sunny weather, and an inch or two of dry powdered snow merely lent a seasonable Christmas decor to the streets of Whitehorse and Dawson. The town thermometer outside the famous Whitehorse Inn has rarely dropped below zero this winter...
...serious aspects, such as Eliot's introduction of the professor's name into the course booklet, with light strokes from the local color of the day makes it tops for its kind. If the description of the hazers' "Bloody Monday" doesn't amuse, the tales of erstwhile room decor surely will...
...main highways from Maine to Florida. Last week, tall, hefty Howard Johnson announced plans to widen out. Already under construction (near Dayton, Columbus and Cincinnati) were the first of 200 new branches that will carry his name, his ice cream (28 flavors) and his own brand of New England decor across the Middle West and into California...