Word: wryness
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George, by Emlyn Williams. The celebrated playwright and actor writes with warmth and wryness about the poverty of his Welsh childhood, and the near disasters of his career as a scholarship boy at Oxford...
...distorts it is to clarify or magnify the hidden part in which he feels the meaning lies, never to call direct attention to his own feelings or flaunt stylistic achievement. In this record of the greatest show on earth the poet breaks his reserve only to let a little wryness creep into certain turns of phrase, sudden words that seem to betray a tiny, noncommital wrinkle at the corner of the mouth. But this is an individuality which does not mar the observational clarity of the poems...
...Quartet plays this music with impeccable balance and finish. . . . Another accomplished artist, Robert Casadesus, plays Ravel's "Valses Nobles et Sentimentales" in a Columbia album. You will not find in these waltzes the fruity charm of Chopin's waltzes, or the lilt of Johann Strauss, but rather an astringent wryness that almost belies the adjectives in the title. . . Finally, there is the love music from Tristan and Isolde by Stokowski and the Youth Orchestra, on Columbia, one of the least tolerable productions this fallen master has turned out. The performance is tame, muddily recorded, and the substitution of flute, oboe...
This week, as death hovered over the fuddy-duddy Transcript, even Boston's hard-boiled reporters were moved to respectful silence. Nostalgia as well as wryness colored the telling of the most famed Transcript legend-that of the butler who announced to his mistress: "There are four reporters here, madam, and a gentleman from the Transcript...
President Coolidge was subject to seasickness which always threatened to mar the pleasure of steaming up & down the Potomac with the Mayflower. On these excursions Col. Coupal would watch the President's face attain a certain degree of pallor and wryness. would pluck two pledgets of cotton from a case and on them pour a few drops of a liquid. Mr. Coolidge would plug the medicated cotton in his ears. Soon his face would relax and ruddy Col. Coupal was free to continue with his jovial stories...