Word: stylishly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...substitute for the natural word or expression that first comes to mind. There will be occasions, relatively rare, when they will be wanted, quite legitimately, to convey a different shade of meaning. They should never be used simply because it is thought they sound more official, more formal more stylish or more impressive than their everyday equivalents...
...settled and the hats have dropped from the air, it remains a superior musical. A shiny period piece, it has approached its job with talent and invested a fortune with taste. Verbal comedy aside, it is an unusually well-rounded show-good music, likable lyrics, attractive dancing, engaging performers, stylish sets, gorgeous costumes, not too awful a book. The one defect of such virtue is that by keeping to its sunny plateaus, Bloomer Girl never scales any peaks...
Maria Wrobel, small, fiftyish, wore a stylish black hat and real silk stockings...
...lengthy yarns, (whose point scarcely matters) that he tenderly unrolls like priceless fabrics richly embroidered with dialect. Fall guy of some of the best of them is Sam Lapidus, whose name Holtz lifted from a building sign 20 years ago. Typical Lapidus yarn (one fourth actual size): Finishing a stylish dinner, Sam and a friend from Tzicagi (Chicago) are confronted for the first time in their lives with fingerbowls...
...bill. It spills over with good humor. It boasts a lot of good people-likably tough Singer Gertrude Niesen, likably loony Comic Jackie Gleason, pert Dancer Dorothy Keller, graceful Ballerina Irina Baronova. Its dancing has zest and spin. Its girls are good-looking, its sets handsome, its costumes stylish...