Word: languidly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...with A Night in Paris and continued with A Night in Spain. Again the Shuberts have felt no great obligation to their chosen title?the Venice pictured would be far less familiar to a gondolier than it would to an oldtime Keith vaudeville subscriber. There are some tricornered hats, languid rhythms, a Benvenuto Cellini fantasy, but by far the most electric portions of the entertainment occur in modern two-a-day tempo and setting...
...find at the Algonquin. Jed Harris has two shows on view, the profane and colorful newspaper show, "Front Page" and a not entirely successful fantasy, but a play like none other now in New York, "Serena Blandish", in which Ruth Gordon, A. E. Matthews and Constance Collier depict the languid game of love in Mayfair, seen by a singularly innocent young wanton. "Man's Estate" most recent of the Theatre Guild offerings, gives Margalo Gillmore and Earl Larimore a chance to thrash out the eternal question of a young man choosing between marriage and his life work...
...Hoover was fretful. He had drawn Cabinet lists, rearranged them, scratched them, interlined them, thrown them away and locked his decisions in the secret vault of his mind. Everything was arranged and three slack weeks stretched away to March 4. Other men might have played sportively in the languid Florida sunshine, but not Mr. Hoover. His hands itched to grip the Presidency. He greeted casual callers absently and mused about Washington...
...strange ability to flex their ears, Dolores Del Rio has awed nations of cinema-seers with her eyebrows. A bear-tamer, now, she twitches scorn for gentlemanly suitors, then pretends fury at Jorga, big brigand who beats her and cuts off her hair; at last a swift yet languid twitch of both eye brows together indicates her subjection...
...National Union. It will produce variation in the enforcement of the law. There will be loose administration in spots all over the United States and a politically inclined National Administration will be strongly tempted to acquiesce in such a condition. Elections will continuously turn on the rigid or languid execution of the Liquor Law, as they do now in Prohibition States. The ever-present issue will confuse and prevent clear and clean-cut popular decisions on the most important national questions, and the politics of the Nation will be demoralized as the politics of States have been through this cause...