Word: dulcet
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...necessarily attends with some misgivings a musical comedy whose scenes are located in imaginary realms of the nether Balkans. One needs only a short time at "The Duchess of Chicago" at the Shubert to realize that those misgivings were justified. The inevitable unrecognized prince is there; so are the dulcet-voiced prime minister and the financial adviser with a foreign accent. The plot (devised in Europe), evidently an outgrowth of the violent anti-Shylock days, is based on the poverty of the prince and the exuitant power of American money in buying his palace and its traditions. Into this...
Modernist furniture and decor is replete with berserk zigzagging, nightmare shapes and gaudiness. These architects, however, with the taste bred of academic training, create in a dulcet and tempered mood. The results are fresh without being freakish. But, due to the cost of materials and the scarcity of fine modernist designers, they are also expensive...
...Dean's most profitable ventures, she was a little "midin-ette." Later, she was a part Negress in Lulu Belle. Never married, her engagement has been reported with discouraging frequency; she eats lemons between meals to discourage hoarseness but her voice, nonetheless, is the voice of a dulcet raven. Her father was an army hospital steward and Lenore Ulric was born in New Ulm, Minn...
...Dulcet and decorative :Show Boat, A Connecticut Yankee, The Three Musketeers...
...Dulcet and decorative: Show Boat, A Connecticut Yankee, The Three Musqueteers...