Word: flutter
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...heart in such a flutter, I wire the love my lips would utter"! Collect, signed "Fanny". This, the Postal Company tells me, be canned sentiment 404 and comes from New Haven. But I no more of St. Valentine...
Writing a play for Miss Ina Claire must be a very pleasant task. Her physical loveliness, effervescent gaiety, calm sophistication and utter femininity have endowed her with a theatrical individuality which makes it necessary for her playwright only to give her reasonable opportunity to flutter about and be her charming self. "Biography" contented itself with filling this bill and consequently was a diverting and successful bit of lightness. In an attempt to recapture the mood (and the success) of this production the Theater Guild has enlisted the talents of playwright S. N. Behrman, stage-designer Lee Simonson and director Philip...
Vocally sure, also, was graceful young Helen Oelheim, another débutante who did all she could with the absurd role of Siebel, for which she had to dress as a boy, flutter about picking flowers. Back-slapping scene of the week took place in the Grand Central station late that night when Tenor Kullmann rushed through the "Charles Kullmann" specials, shaking hands with his townsfolk to whom he was just plain Charlie...
...blush, and flutter their eyelids, and show the most delicate signs of embarrassment when any indelicate subject is touched on in conversation? Modest young women of Cambridge...
...Missouri's Bennett Champ Clark. The Senators marched back to the Capitol, where next day five of them joined other Finance Committee members in approving by 16-to-4 a redraft of the Clark resolution. In effect it offered an emasculated Blue Eagle less than ten months to flutter to its grave. The resolution would extend NRA to April 1, 1936, grant a 30-day period after the present June 16 expiration date for revision of existing codes to its specifications. The death-dealing specifications: 1) No price fixing, except in mineral resource industries...