Word: droll
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
After dinner, at about 8 o'clock the Glee Club will sing, while before the singing a droll, consisting of short seems from Shakespeare's comedy "Mid-Summer Night's Dream," will be played it the Common Room...
...folk meet again. Dan has to toss Jotham Klore into the water before he can persuade Molly to come and live with him on his new farm. Excellent as are the sharp, penny-plain performances by Miss Walker and Mr. Fonda, they do not dim the legitimate debut of droll Herb Williams. In earmuffs and plug hat, he impersonates a sly dizzard who signs on as driver of the Sarsey Sal. Fortune is not a mule driver by trade. He prefers gambling and his various winnings in kind enable him to embark on such careers as the ministry, dentistry, photography...
...performers ever set loose by a capricious and allegedly all-wise Creator. . . . And he is being paid-not much, but something-for attending this place which is part seminary, part abattoir. . . . Every office needs at least one man who, though a competent workman, understands that existence is primarily a droll affair, with the horselaugh predominant not only to the grave, but after the will is read. For purposes of keeping up morale and teaching the cardinal truths of life, any large paper could afford to hire, at princely salary, such a man as Gene Fowler . . . or Joel Sayre, a wandering...
...awkward little people with piping voices and thick Germanic accents who are employed as courtiers, adagio dancers, Mickey & Minnie Mouse and scores of Three Little Pigs. The problem of what could be done with midgets in the theatre has long bemused Broadway. Keep Moving has not solved it, but droll, dust-dry Comedian Tom Howard has in one skit. The midget, dressed as a child in a blue "sleeper," comes onstage demanding to be told a bedtime story. Irascible Mr. Howard refuses to treat the midget as a child, tartly tells him he is old enough to be his father...
Most of the laughs in The Milky Way are products of its actors rather than its authors. Assisting Mr. O'Connell, one of the funniest white men on the stage, are droll William Foran and a brash young woman named Gladys George...