Word: suavest
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Night of Mystery. Those who knew Adolphe Menjou when he was a waiter in a Cleveland chop house were not surprised when the movies "discovered" him. He was the suavest man that ever picked up a 25¢ tip. His way of wearing a cigaret or a dress suit brought him almost instant cinema fame. Two years ago, his entertainment was impeccable. Since then his expression has taken on a tired, wooden, what-does-it-matter manner. In his latest film, A Night of Mystery, adapted from Victorien Sardou's Ferreol, he puts on the silken cloak of a gallant French...
Cardinal Gasparri, Prince of the Church, is of course a "Papist" in only the most enlightened and suavest sense. His Policy is to keep on the best possible terms with Christian governments outside of Italy and to wear down the resistance of succeeding Italian regimes to the Pope's claims of temporal sovereignty. Upon this point, Osservatore Romano, organ of the Vatican, declared last fall that His Holiness claims: "Liberty and independence, not only real and perfect, but also manifest to the faithful of the whole world...
There were hearty handshakes, clammy as trout, warm as buns. Old friends wandered among the exhibits, admired the ultimate mode in funeral shoes, the suavest cuts in cemetery suitings, the 1926 coffins. They strolled off to dinner, exchanging views on the smoothing of an eyelid, the powdering of a nose, the arrangement of hands and what is the finest angle for a head...
There is, in Manhattan, a softspoken, smoothly tailored little man, with the warmest of hearts, the mildest of blue eyes, the suavest of manners, the nicest of English accents, and the attitude toward life-so far as you would guess to hear him purring of Señor Zuloaga's portraits or the latest...
...will occasionally find good voices singing jazz in musical comedies and in vaudeville, but they are always frayed, tired, careless. Mme. Gauthier's phrasing was neat and expressive. The fine artist simply would not down. The final phrase of Do It Again, for instance, she sang with the suavest expression. The test of the experiment lay in the response of the audience. The audience was vociferously enthusiastic...