Word: sopping
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...grim and gory type,--and also really good. Michel Simon, sans his "Port of Shadows" barbe, turns in a superb performance. He screams and slobbers through the plot with remarkable gusto. The contrast of these two of his latest parts is really astonishing. As a sop to the earthy aesthetics of the masses, there is also a quite delectable blonde named Maleleine Ozeray who plays a quite unorthodox feminine lead to an antiquated lecher of the stage played by Louis Jouvet. The cast, as a whole, really carries the show. Their sensitivity to the ideas of author and director, combined...
...Miss Stevens got a sop. Her chum, and coworker, Minerva Bernardino of the Dominican Republic, was put in as vice chairlady to run things as satrap for the lady from Argentina...
...waters in two challenges for the America's Cup (1934 and 1937). This year both were racing twelve-metre boats (half the size of Cup boats). Along the Esplanade as well as within the Royal Yacht Squadron gates, the No. 1 controversy of the week was whether Sop-with's Tomahawk could beat Vanderbilt...
...admission price to 40? after 9:30 p.m. (a sop to grousing concessionaires who had demanded...
Neville Chamberlain tried to look like a statesman-imperturbable-but inwardly he was rubbing his hands; he was sure that he had avoided a war which would have been bad business, had got gracefully out of an embarrassing moral obligation to the Czechs, had thrown a cheap sop that would convert a troublesome fellow into a reasonable man with whom Chamberlain could henceforth make profitable connections in this best of all possible worlds...