Word: tomming
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Laborite Tom Shaw (interjecting) : "I may say, as the Secretary of State for India once said, in one of his sober moments?" (Pandemonium, furious shouts from friends of the Secretary, the Earl of Birkenhead, a discriminating, not a swizzling drinker...
Cabaret (Gilda Gray). Nimble-limbed, a good little girl dances in a cabaret to support her family. She shields her weak brother accused of murder. Tom Moore is the Irish cop who makes love to her when he is not busy trailing the real murderer. The directing is stagy, the supporting cast feeble. The story by that prolific scribbler Owen Davis is unhappily reminiscent of that whooping stage success Broadway...
...darts sailed down from the galleries. Some people rammed their fists against their ears. Two women jumped up and left the room, running. Pandemonium continued. Ears ached, foreheads throbbed. There was no denying that all the noises in the U. S. had been reproduced except the explosion of Black Tom. That might come at any moment. But no-after an inferno that only a very serious person could have invented came silence. The Manhattanites gasped, a few clapped, many cat-called and hooted. Arguments raged for blocks around as the noise-beaten crowd dispersed through the whispering city. Critics...
...parade, Democrats must organize it, the most available drummer-boy being Senator James A. Reed of Missouri. Governors Smith of New York and Ritchie of Maryland are ardent foes of the Anti-Saloon League dogma, but are not so ready to exorcise it with tom-toms...
...Nestor of funnymen, older than sly Art Young or odd Tom Powers, is Eugene ("Zim") Zimmerman, active at 65 as president of the American Association of Cartoonists and Caricaturists. Born Swiss, he early removed to Horseheads, N. Y., where now the store, hotel, firehouse and railway station are as thickly hung with his sketches as Florence is with busts of Dante...