Word: sharping
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...right; his father, Charles Warner, was an actor before him. After finishing with school and with the University College in London, Warner spoke and dressed as though he had been to Eton and Oxford. In the growing success of his early days on the stage, he wore a slight, sharp mustache; his sloping shoulders and handsome, expressive hands gave him distinction. He has been in pictures for 15 years, now plays the district attorney or the husband oftener than the hero, gets fewer letters than younger stars, but has established his reputation as one of the most skillful actors...
Gambling is a production in his best Broadway manner, possessed of a sharp, exciting first act, a specious but persuasive denouement and a cast that includes also Mary Phillips as Mazie...
There was nothing in TIME'S language that a gentlewoman could find worthy, neither sympathy for the mother and father swans over-powered by Englishmen whom I do not hesitate to call callous brutes, nor any tenderness for the little frightened swanlets as their bills were nicked with sharp knives! Do you approve of such savagery to animals? If you do you ought to have your own noses nicked...
...onetime War correspondent & Mexican sugar planter, wrote that at Berlin "only the other day" he had witnessed two German students fight, not a Schlägermensur or sport duel, wherein undergraduates belabor one another with large, blunt broadswords, but a secret, illegal Säbelmensur, oldtime insult duel, with sharp sabres...
...crossed the Ossetian Road on horseback. My dear, have you ever ridden in a Caucasian saddle? It's got a ridge as sharp as a roof. I had a pair of camel's hair breeches-have you ever worn camel's hair pants...