Word: ribald
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...favor" he must bestow. Moreover, in Mr. Whitley's case the Sovereign was impelled not by necessity but by liveliest gratitude. Well His Majesty knows that through seven stormy years the dignity of the Throne and the sanctity of tradition have been upheld by Speaker Whitley in an often ribald House of Commons. Therefore most Britons were positive that Mr. Whitley was about to become a viscount?but they were fooled...
...long stretches in which author e. e. cummings had obviously fallen into the immature fallacy of trying to tell all about Life in a single paragraph, found partially concealed in its three spasmodic acts many specimens of acute and mordant understanding as well as a fair quantity of ribald...
...beautiful girl, find their presence highly disagreeable. Wallace Beery becomes an Alpine guide, a profession in which his efforts are ludicrously insufficient. As Now We're in the Air at one point descended to extraordinarily vulgar farce, so Wife Savers allows its plot to depend upon a somewhat ribald interpretation of a note, written by the heroine, in which she informs the hero that he will have to marry her because she is in trouble. Wallace Beery also confesses in a subtitle that he is not to blame for having been born a month too soon. Wife Savers, despite...
...this ribald and entertaining, albeit disrespectful opus Ernest Boyd sets out to fire the whiskers of several highly respected lit'ry gents of the classic English school, and in spite of the fact that a good deal of what he says is patently untrue, or at least misleading, it must be admitted that his theses are never anything but plausible. The best traditions of English letters seem to present to him an endless and enchanting vista of abstract crockery to be broken with loud pagan snorts and bellows, and while he not infrequently builds an elaborate argument of disproof where...
...Charley's Aunt" such a thriller. The Copley is now given over to strange and uncouth peasants from far places, and gents who wear caps for headgear, and the tense moment just after Hodolph Krauswitz, the Swiss millionaire, has been found dead in the laundry basket is disturbed by ribald yells from the galleries and the sound of cracking peanut shells. It is a far cry from the old days when "Pygmalion" was such a success that it ran for two weeks, and the politest of Back Bay hand clapping greeted the first American performance of Pinero's "Big Drum...