Word: rendezvouses
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Burlesque has a past, and a dark one it is. Twenty years ago the theatres which housed it were the rendezvous of gunmen, thieves and other representatives of knavery. Policemen watched their entrances and exits in order to trace the movements of "bad men"; "plain-clothes" officers mingled with the...
In an obscure rendezvous in Paris the meeting will take replace. 'No blare of trumpets, no strains of martial music, no pomp and circumstance worthy of the Emperor of the Russians will mark the debut of Cyril into the political whirl of Europe. That is all for the future. The...
Promptly the pious Duchess falls in love with the professor. Through a misarrangement of rendezvous, the second act curtain finds her in the darkened living room?and in the arms of her butler. Meanwhile the maid of the household and the daughter fall in love with the same Professor. Through...
Straightway they prepared an injunction and many padlocks for use, not against the Ritz Roof Garden, but against the entire hotel, rendezvous des élites, cercle du beau monde. This was not only unprecedented, it was superlative, it was Ritzy.
So far, indeed, the convention has seemed bleak and drear. There is much that is bright and beautiful about the Forest City, but the delegates are heavy with sobering business, and their rendezvous is close to the sooted and drab Union Station and the Soldiers' and Sailors' Monument.