Word: sagely
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...apply the blue pencil, has the subtlety of Shakespeare's characterization been caught. When giving his instructions (I-III) to Laertes (Wesley Addy)--who is excellent in his humorous indifference to his father's preaching, but none the less convincing in his pursuit of revenge--Polonius is at once sage and verbose. To Ophelia (Katherine Locke),--who is appropriately fragile, and who contributes a mad scene (IV-V) as effective as any in the play--the Lord Chamberlain is exasperatingly hasty and foolish. Humor, too, enters into Mr. Graham's skillful portrayal, especially when the utmost is wrung from...
...Jerger has a taste for Scotch & soda, a flair for anecdote, a willingness to think for himself. He once wrote to the hard-boiled sage of Baltimore, H. L. Mencken, suggesting that condemned criminals be given their choice of execution or submitting themselves as subjects for medical research. Mencken advised him that U. S. sentimentality would never stand for such a procedure...
Editor and proprietor of the "Gazette" since 1895, the Emporia Sage is world famed for his editorials. He has written a number of books, the latest of which is "Puritan in Babylon," published last year...
...clever line, for which his alma mater, Northwestern University, in 1937 awarded Charlie the honorary degree of Master of Innuendo and Snappy Comeback. An assistance also is the fact that Charlie's person, due to his vast press, is almost as well known to radio listeners as his sage, snide, bored voice. Charlie and Bergen collect $100,000 a year from the sale of dolls, gadgets, silverware and other copies of cocky Charlie...
...years in the history of the scatterbrained, snobbish, tumbledown New England Brills, from Great-Aunt Sarah, who had known the Transcendentalists, to sophisticated daughter Bella, beautiful, jaded, unhappy, to whom men were drawn as sightseers were drawn to the shrine of stuffed-shirt Poet John Brill, "the Wickford Sage...