Word: ribald
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...life. No one will ever know. Suzanne Lenglen, against whom some equally dubious decision had been called in the first set, ran out the set 8-6, and a moment later was borne from the court on the shoulders of her worshipers, her purple face peering, like a ribald Nero's from a wreath of flowers...
ANDROCLES AND THE LION?George Bernard Shaw's ribald report of martyrdom among the early Christians...
Time came for the first dance. A nine-piece orchestra struck up a fox-trot in the charity ball room; in the diplomatic ballroom an orchestra of strings played a waltz. There was no confusion. The diplomats did not hear a single ribald chuckle of jazz; the charity strutters were not bored by the supplications of fiddle strings. Reporters asked Dr. Heyl questions. Said he: "The partition is made of hair felt, supported by thin boards of sugar-cane fibre, and the musical sounds become tangled and lost in this wilderness of hair and fibre. Hair, fibre and similar pliable...
...Ribald sandwich men prowled after dainty women, hooked their leering quills into the backs of afternoon frocks, tailored coats. Red feathers depended from Deputies coattails; .gamins snickered and the deputies, the fine ladies, not seeing the joke, snickered also...
...lyrics by an American (Richard L. Stokes, dramatic critic of the St. Louis Post-Despatch) was given a gentle premier in the St. Louis Municipal Theatre last week. Dignity was the keynote. There was no saxophone in the orchestra, nor any instrument with a belly for giggling, or a ribald larynx. Tenor Forest Lament lifted up his voice impressively. An audience of some 9,000 who had come to catcall, hump their shoulders and shuffle their feet, went off to their homes or their cabarets feeling- some of them-that they had been cheated...