Word: dressere
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Theatregoers may not roll in the aisles when lanky Ray Bolger impersonates a window dresser retiring for the night, or when squalling, grimacing Bert Lahr is bilked by a stockbroker. But plenty of people will be amused by Cartoonist Robert Wildhack who brings to the footlights an old trick that made his Victor record, "Snores & Sneezes," famed some 20 years ago. Mr. Wildhack timidly comes onstage in cap & gown, nervously thumbing a notebook, to lecture on labial "Sound Phenomena." With authentic academic embarrassment, he takes up snores, classifies them scientifically, self-consciously illustrates them. Snore 2 d, the "Westinghouse Airbrake...
...Corp.'s car had halted close to the Rubel platform, the man in the white apron whipped out a submachine gun from beneath the sacks on his pushcart. Instantly he was surrounded by numerous allies, some of whom had just drawn up in three automobiles. Others, like the natty dresser and the inexpert huckster, emerged from the crowd that had loitered about the plant during the morning. Like a crack football team, the robbers went through their criminal plays with the precision of true professionals...
...years he was chairman of the Library Committee, which governs the Library of Congress. He fought the League of Nations in the stormy '20's, favored U. S. participation in the World Court. In appearance he is red-faced, small (5 ft. 6 in.), a neat dresser. His addresses, delivered in falsetto, are usually admonitory, pedagogical. When his party was in power, he used to wear a wide political smile. Now an annoyed frown is usually to be seen behind his pince nez. His lack of humor makes him a perennial target for opposition wags. No one questions...
...young man places all his money on a horse the girl has entered in a race. The film comes to a happy and amusing conclusion as the horse-trader uses his own hilarious method to bring the horse across the line a winner. Will Rogers' supporting cast includes Louise Dresser, Evelyn Venable, Kent Taylor and Stepin Fetchit...
...minutes later they seized a school-teacher named Louis Dresser who was just starting to school in his car, drove south with him all day and all night. Next morning at a crossroads in Oklahoma they met by prearrangement a car with Texas license plates driven by a woman, who, from Dresser's description, was none other than Clyde Barrow's paramour, the fair, cigar-smoking Bonnie ("Suicide Sal") Parker. There Dresser was released and the convicts drove off with her in the direction of the Osage Hills-presumably to hide with the Texas fugitives. One other Lansing...