Word: droll
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...forbid that they ever shall become real ashes." How she creates these exigencies, day after day, year after year, has been a mystery to many an author. Her method is to introduce into the normal lives of Artist Dicky Graham and Madge a series of domestic disturbers, devilish dervishes, droll dolts. But, always, Sentiment is the essential ingredient in Revelations of a Wife. It appeals, not to shopgirls who want a seduction in every chapter, but to housewives and clubwomen who read more fiction than any other group of U. S. inhabitants...
...Droll was an adventure which befell last week, James Albert Edward Hamilton, Duke of Abercorn, since 1922 Governor of Northern Ireland. To his personal motor car the police of Belfast had just assigned a distinctive combination of lights, so that even at night instant right of way would be accorded to His Grace...
...face ... it makes you laugh. . . ." Marceline hated to be called a clown in those days. Clowns are the silly fellows in the circus who get guffaws by contorting their inane rubber faces, by painting big spots on their cheeks and putting putty on their noses. Marceline was a droll, or better still...
...Silvers, his partner, killed himself. When Marceline came back to the Hippodrome in 1915 after a trip abroad, his crowds were already beginning to prefer the silent flutter of faces on a screen to the gayeties of a nimble droll. A mocking shadow ran after him for the next few years, whispering an insult in his ear every time the crowds at Ringling's sat silent when he twisted an eyebrow at them. By 1920, he used to pick up dollars by coming in at business men's dinners and trying to make the solemn faces crack...
...difference is droll...