Word: unctuousness
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Connecticut Yankee has taken a back seat. A mere Alsatian, whom Mark Twain would have classified among the "furriners", has invented a device destined to transform the entire academic world. The radio, which has brought upheaval and strike to the musical world, the "smiling voice" and unctuous "Goodnight" to churchly spheres, has already found legitimate application in the extension of university courses. Grandma and Grandpa Applebloom have been lapping up Professor Whosis' course on the philosophy of transmigration and the psychology of the billboard. Streams of erudition have been poured forth upon the desert...
...Mawruss-toned down to the flat black-and-whiteness of the screen? It sounds as mournful as a sixth class French funeral, doesn't it? But, strangely enough, it isn't. Even shorn of actual speech Abe and Mawruss remain uproariously funny - the same vulgar, unctuous incredible immortals they were when they first sprang twin-Minervas of the cloak-and-suit trade from the brain of Montague Glass. The plot more or less follows the outline of the first Potash and Perlmutter play. Rosie is there-and Feldman the unscrupulous lawyer-and Irma Potash's love affair...
Bombo. A slightly revamped edition of one of Al Jolson's greatest successes, returning to the Winter Garden for a short sojourn. Mr. Jolson is as unctuous, ingratiating, plaintive and humorous as ever...
Students will soon be actually playing tennis on Sunday; clanging trolley-cars will destroy forever the sacred quiet of Brattle street itself. It may even happen that those gentle hurricanes of dust in Harvard square will yield to the unctuous persuasion of a modern water-wagon, and the secluded dusk of our streets will be lightened by the brazen rays of a real are-light...