Word: grapeshot
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Soitout's winning bust was exhibited with much éclat in the Salon of 1850. There was some talk of ordering replicas for public buildings, but while the discussion was still going on pale Louis Napoléon abruptly ended the Second Republic with his famed whiff of grapeshot. Soitout's Marianne was hustled away to an attic. There she stayed for 28 years. With the Third Republic firmly established, Marianne was hauled out for the Exposition of 1878. At the close of the Exposition the State offered her to the City of Paris which placed the lady...
Damn Your Honor was conceived by Bayard Veiller, a tireless practitioner of the grapeshot-&-canister style of playwriting, and Becky Gardiner, recruited from the heroic reaches of cinemaland. It has a piratical hero named La Tour (John Halliday), a high-born heroine named Cydalyse (Jessie Royce Landis), five settings by Lee Simonson depicting various splendid aspects of Colonial New Orleans. When the buccaneer has gained the heart and boudoir of the Governor's wife and that overbearing villain has been duly cuckolded, there occurs what bids fair to be recalled as a line-of-the-season. La Tour discovers...