Word: droll
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Sacha was frequently embarrassed by his father's fame. Besides such eminent figures as Sarah Bernhardt, Edmond Rostand, Henry Bernstein. Rejane, Anatole France, Eugene Brieux, Paul Bourget, he knew droll and pompous nobodies, devoted lovers of the theatre, all of whom impressed on him the constant fear that he might, from lack of talent, dishonor the name he bore...
Maintenance expenses consume annually a little more than 21 cents of every dollar paid in rent by students. According to Al droll Durant '02, Businoon Manager, this fixation in spent entirely over a period of a few years and not allowed to accumulate into a large surplus...
Except for Beatrice Lillie, there is not a great deal for anyone else in the company to do. A spectator who gets in after the third scene hears droll Herb Williams (The Farmer Takes a Wife) open his mouth exactly three times. For Eddie Foy Jr., who can at least imitate a seal better than anyone else in the U. S. theatre, there is no profitable employment whatever. Most of the skit work is taken over by a British newcomer named Reginald Gardiner who imitates trains, dirigibles, steamships. Other features of an evening of fair fun: the dancing feet...
...course of true love to a satisfactory conclusion. As has already been demonstrated on the screen (Little Miss Marker, Lady for a Day), the more involved a Runyon character is written, the harder it is to act. Actor Harrington seems to interpret Marco not so much as a droll picaroon but as a bumbling slob. But as Mike, Actor Sweeney is a soft-spoken Runyon killer of the first order. If A Slight Case of Murder outlasts Three Men on a Horse, its aging kinsman in the theatre next door, it will be due largely to Mr. Sweeney...
...this way," a droll Sylt salt observed. "We've got a bird sanctuary all right and the birds are laying fine. Some of them lay long-range cannon behind the sand dunes. Others have only laid gun emplacements. One old hen, I noticed, laid a small gunpowder factory...