Word: weren
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...must be worthy of the name. Lady, Be Good is very good INDEED. Assisting the leaders is Cliff Edwards, who makes the simple ukelele an instrument of violent versatility, an agile and pictorial chorus, brilliant settings by Normal Bel-Geddes and music by George Gershwin. And, as if this weren't enough, the producers broke nearly all precedent and bought a large stock of new and most amusing jokes. "You're so beautiful," says Mr. Catlett to a certain lady, "that there have been complaints about...
...this month. Said he: "His Royal Highness is one of the best men to hounds in England. When you consider that he hunts three times a week and rides as hard as he does, it is surprising he doesn't have more falls. If he weren't the Prince of Wales his falls would not be mentioned as anything extraordinary. I train all the Prince's horses. If I were to fall twelve times a week no one would ever give it a thought. But if the Prince is thrown, the news is flashed all over...
...Congress in control of every home in the land between parent and child. State Representative McCorsey said much the same thing in more vigorous idiom: "I don't want any more monkeying with the buzz-saw by that bunch in Washington. We don't mix nohow. We weren't born under the same régime and don't drink out of the same bottle. We don't want them interfering with our affairs...
...crime, principally by climbing across an apartment house court on an ironing board. Even May McAvoy, who generally seems real even when the rest of the picture goes hang, is made to appear just a goofy little birdie. At that, the picture might have held the interest if it weren't allowed to smoulder out at the end, when the murderer is unmasked in a cloud of subtitles. It looks as if somebody started out to make a bedroom farce and then thought of making it a thriller...
That was the only time we laughed. "But weren't you 'on' anything in Paris...