Word: strung
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...with sobs, wishy-washy waltzes, and heavy footed comedians, through the blonde-chorused extravaganza with its endless array of stars, to the so-called "intimate" type, the last named is usually more dependable. Some pleasant tunes, a voice or two, a bit of fun, and a few good dancers, strung together on a thread of a plot, can fill an evening very happily. If the plot is stretched to an extreme fineness, almost all individuality removed from the music, and the good voice or two done away with, very little seems to remain. Yet on such a frail basis...
...stockings, oddly swollen, protruded from the pantaloons of a pierrot suit, and his face, painted half red, half white above his lace ruff, under a hat tipped with a pompon, leered dreadfully into the black polished depths of a cheval-glass. Beside him lay an overturned stool. A rope, strung through pulleys, connected his neck with the ceiling...
Alarums. At Siloengkang, Sumatra, last week, the Dutch Superin- tendent and four native bodyguards were shot from ambush by "Communists." Near Padang a Dutch officer was set upon and wounded by other "Communists," strung up by the thumbs, refused water until he died. Finally, at Sawahloento, Sumatra, the "Communists" seized the railway station, burned down the stationmaster's house, and were only routed when the local Dutch Sub-Governor personally rallied the police and led them against the insurgents, killing seven, wounding 135, restoring Dutch prestige...
...American Tragedy-Dreiser's novel cut to the bone and strung up for the stage...
...models to show the garters off and models mean girlies, but the girlies don't mean anything. The only chance for a thriller in all this respectability is lost when you discover that these before mentioned models are all done up in muslin and that their bare backs are strung across with pink and white ribbons. Well, anyway, these partners get sorer and sorer at one another until they resolve to split the business. Their lawyer-proposes a poker game, the partners play and brother Johns loses to brother Nettleton. By the contract, Johns becomes Nettleton's butler...