Word: joans
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...features a nosey, flighty spinster. This one is particularly interested in males, especially males in whom other females are interested. Opposed to her in the play's development is a sensible artists' model, possessing a maximum of feminine charm and amiability. This part is most agreeably played by Joan Maclean...
...Whose children are named James, Jane, Jean, Joan and Jewel? (See THE CABINET...
...James Bradbury Jr., the talented Swiss comedian, was being sobered up off stage, and Mme. Dorothy Hall as stenographer Joan Thayer rested her head against the shoulder of her millionaire husband, impersonated by Mr. John Warner, and cooed...
...Edmond Hoyle (1672-1769) first systematized the laws of whist, and it became a byword: "according to Hoyle." His treatises also include rules for quadrille, piquet, quinze, vingt-et-un, casino, put, all fours, Pope Joan, thirty-one, brag, commerce, Earl of Coventry, lansquenet, ecarte, cribbage, five & ten, faro rouge et noir, matrimony, cuchre, poker or bluff, reversi, connexions, speculation, snip snap snore 'em, Boston, catch the ten, lift smoke, lotto, chess, backgammon, draughts, hazard, dominoes, cricket, billiards, tennis, golf, horse racing, cocking, twenty deck, poker, archery...
...Passage to India." "The Constant Nymph." "The Green Hat," the biographies of Lytton Strachey, Shaw's "Saint Joan:" Mr. Walpose was many an instance to offer in evidence of the continued vitality of literature in England. Mr. Mencken dismisses each one with a contemptuous short. "I believe that Americans of the more reflective sort have had a dreadful lover does of such bilge...