Word: drammer
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...instance you would indicate the McCormick house as follows: "Here's where Edith McCormick entatains drammer enthusiasts of the hinterland...
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...Story. Some call it the Drayma, some the Drammer, the largest proportion simply and succinctly the Movies. But, anyhow, whether you go in for the newest expressionistic fling in any number of scenes in which the hero is an ear-wig? and the heroine the Spirit of the Single Tax and all the action takes place offstage or stick to the simple mystery play where bodies are always falling out of chinaclosets and nobody knows who the real detective is, you will be pretty sure to find something to your taste in Mr. Leacock's latest book of burlesques...
...side of the footlights is not depressingly large. And singularly enough the best things, with one or two exceptions (notably the amusing opening ballad, which should be sung to the obvious tune by a Voice with straw in its throat) have little or nothing to do with "ther drammer" at all. The theatrical streaks are as a whole distinctly below the level of the non-Orphean layers. They reveal a tendency, from which the rest of the material is happily free, that has been adversely commented on by divers other reviewers of divers other issues, and not without justice...
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