Word: kick
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Waiting for red-haired Cinemactress Clara Bow as she returned to Manhattan from Europe with her husband Rex Bell was "Pinkie," her pet white mouse, airmailed from Hollywood. To newshawks Miss Bow gave her formula for marital happiness: "Never go to sleep with a kick on your mind. Just lean over and say: 'I'm sorry, dear...
...king is the turning point of the entire performance, and it is his sense of humor that seems to be the clue to the whole tenor of the play. Those mild little replies of his which carry the kick of a mule and the sly smile that puts him beyond the reach of the bellowings of the dictator, and the outbursts of the queen, vary considerably in their effectiveness. This is not due to failure in performance, but rather to the fact that Sherwood has drawn his point too fine for maintained effectiveness...
There is no gripping melodrama in "The Queen's Husband." no kick in the pants humor. But this nice, soft, subiter--there are those who seem to love...
...Feemy lost that rotten feeling, and as the curtain fell their wings began to sprout. God was probably pleased; Shaw certainly was; and the audiences who witness the Stagers' production of "The Shewing-Up of Blanco Posnet" at the Peabody Play house this week get a whale of a kick...
...understood the signal to back.* Then he throws the locomotive into reverse. If he has a power reverse gear he just turns a little wheel, steam doing the rest. If he has a hand reverse gear he has to push hard and knows that the antic steam may kick the lever and break...