Word: fops
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Prince. As the greatest fop and dandy of his age, Christopher Sykes was, in dress and person, a work of art-but a work of art peculiarly Victorian. "Where the fops of other ages took the butterfly as their model, he found inspiration in heavier matter. Dignity, majesty, and beautiful gloom, rather than brilliant skimming coloured parabolas, provide the keynote of his style." With his tall, elegant stoop and long golden beard, Christopher had the aspect of a late Roman emperor, and it was this aspect, apparently, that on one fateful occasion tempted the jovial prince to empty a glass...
...fights and, at the age of nine, a pretty little house guest whom he pushed downstairs because she gave him too little attention. He was ugly, and in his teens dismayed society by not only looking but behaving like a troglodyte, as Turgenev called him. Neither dressing like a fop nor training on horizontal bars brought the shy Count success with fashionable ladies. He took refuge in boorishness and brothels...
...help them catch millionaire husbands. They hit on the scheme of pooling their room rents and leasing a $300-a-month Long Island house. A nice retired saleslady (Billie Burke) agrees to act as their mother. After a bit of high-pressure persuasion, the store's pinchpenny fop of a floorwalker (Adolphe Menjou) is dragged along as a window-dressing husband & father...
...sufferings of a friend, but it requires a very fine nature . . . to sympathize with a friend's success." Biographer Pearson's sympathy is broad enough to cover both aspects of Wilde's career. He has chosen to stress Wilde the drawing-room wit, the extravagant fop, the brilliant author of comedies as sparkling as any ever written for the English stage...
...Darryl Zanuck dishes out several times each year. Like all the others, The Dolly Sisters, which launches George Jessel as a Hollywood producer, has a plot concocted of time-tested staples: the kindly, absent-minded accent (S. K. Sakall); the handsome, threadbare song-plugger (John Payne); the rich, respectable fop (Reginald Gardiner); the old-time hit tune (I'm Always Chasing Rainbows); the lavish dance sequence (performed in blackface on a 75-foot banjo to the tune of Darktown Strutters' Ball). The only really fresh face belongs to Frank Latimore, who plays Chicago department-store tycoon Irving Netcher...