Word: less
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Literally banzai means no more and no less than "ten thousand years...
This Year of Grace was heralded by fanfares, tuckets and sennets such as seldom announce anything less than the birth of a Prince of Wales or the entrance of Lit-tul Lillian Leitzel. Trans-Atlantic commuters who saw its opening at the Pavilion Theatre in London were reduced to choked, ecstatic finger-tip kissing in their attempts to relate its manifold charms. Jesse Matthews, they ultimately gasped, sings "A Room with a View." . . . Tillie Losch's fluttering hands, fanciful feet . . . brilliant . . . divine...
...modern song and dance actresses. The pictures of her face and front and back, which decorate theatre lobbies, do not have to be taken from some special angle or worked over by men with brushes. On her long legs, she moves rapidly about the stage and she sings less with her larynx than with her eyes and hands, which, in Broadway musical shows, is a virtuous ability. Treasure Girl is not fair...
...John Dewey any less alive last week when a bust of John Dewey was unveiled at Columbia University, for he is one of the few mortals to whom immortality of fame is already conceded...
...traded Rogers Hornsby, famed second baseman and manager of the Braves, to the Chicago Cubs for about $200,000 and five less famous players...