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Word: grotesquesness (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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Yellow-haired Frances Williams sings the show's best song, Bottoms Up, in her slithering, urgent voice. To this ditty Producer White dances a strenuous routine (successor to his Charleston, Black Bottom). The carnivals of Europe have inspired huge, mechanical grotesques which loom now and then behind the players...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theatre: New Plays in Manhattan: Oct. 7, 1929 | 10/7/1929 | See Source »

Precise Grotesques*

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Precis Grotesques* | 5/4/1925 | See Source »

The covered arcade is one of the most salient features of the proposed Library. Its floor will be of stone and marble, forming a simple and attractive pattern which is repeated in the brick and stone vaulting of its roof, supported by columns having specially designed capitals with animals heads...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: LIBRARY PLANS CARRY OUT FLEMISH TRADITIONS | 5/11/1922 | See Source »

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