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Word: fops (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...letter to the city of Rome. It consists of the memoirs of Jimmy, an exquisitely cultivated Belgian bum who gets a job as a tourist guide in the Holy City and finds a few shadowy, crackpot friends. There is Sir Craven, so named for his Craven "A" cigarettes, a fop straight out of the Oscar Wilde era and The Yellow Book. There is a businesslike crook named Enrico, and there is a beautiful girl named Geronima, who tucks a flower into Jimmy's buttonhole each morning. Soon he becomes known across Rome as "the guide with the flower." With...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Mixed Fiction, Jun. 22, 1959 | 6/22/1959 | See Source »

...casket-choosing scenes can be a bore, too. But Jay, doubling as the Prince of Arragon, emerged as a delightful fop. Robert Evans made the Prince of Morocco a glum, dead-pan character, with unfortunate results; the only way to save him is to play him for comedy, as Earle Hyman did so tellingly last year...

Author: By Caldwell Titcomb, | Title: A Summer Drama Festival: Tufts, Wellesley, Harvard | 9/18/1958 | See Source »

...casket-choosing scenes can be a bore, too. But Jay, doubling as the Prince of Arragon, emerges as a delightful fop. Robert Evans makes the Prince of Morocco a glum, dead-pan character, with unfortunate results. The only way to save him is to play him for comedy, as Earle Hyman did so tellingly last year...

Author: By Caldwell Titcomb, | Title: The Merchant of Venice | 7/31/1958 | See Source »

John Hallowell as the more gallant of the gentlemen-footmen is a very amusing fop indeed, and Robert Gamble hits a perfect note as his bumbling companion. David Landon as the annoyed father is also most believable and amusing...

Author: By Gerald E. Bunker, | Title: Escurial and Les Precieuses Ridicules | 10/18/1957 | See Source »

...Noel Coward "the singing Lunts," were married "with 3,000 people in the cathedral and 20,000 in the streets." Later in the U.S., Ritchard wasted his directorial skills on a dismal flop called Buy Me Blue Ribbons ("The reviews were simply blasting"), became identified as a periwigged fop in Restoration comedies ("That was my Mary Pickford period-all those long, blonde wigs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Flotsam & Jetsam | 8/19/1957 | See Source »

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