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- The vaudevillian comedies were "preposterous narcotics."† (source)
- The three hops of the bunny became three struts of a vaudeville vamp.† (source)
- A real comedian he was—this was as much a vaudeville performance as a robbery.† (source)
- Vaudeville.† (source)
- He told him his uncle Ed Alison had gone up to the preacher after the funeral was said and shook his hand, the two of them standing there holding onto their hats and leaning thirty degrees into the wind like vaudeville comics while the canvas flapped and raged about them and the funeral attendants raced over the grounds after the lawnchairs, and he'd leaned into the preacher's face and screamed at him that it was a good thing they'd held the burial that morning because the way it was…† (source)
- He shot a look in my direction, wagging his eyebrows like a villain in vaudeville.† (source)
- National in scope, local in flavor, Bond Tours combined the old-fashioned elements of vaudeville, the county fair, the Fourth of July parade.† (source)
- Rostipov made his living as a magician in vaudeville shows and had achieved the incredible feat of stringing a wire from the pinnacle of the cathedral to the cupola of the Galician Brotherhood, on the other side of the plaza, which he walked across with only a frail stick for balance.† (source)
- Yet I had to fight him as I could, in terms he understood, even though we sounded like characters in a razor-slinging vaudeville skit.† (source)
- Jesus, he's a walking vaudeville act!† (source)
- It sounds like a vaudeville act.† (source)
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- We joined the vaudeville circuit and went on stage.† (source)
- But they brought—often from experience in Yiddish theater and vaudeville—a genius for the cultural common denominator that captivated the American public.† (source)
- I just got these at Trash and Vaudeville.† (source)
- Vaudeville.† (source)
- With a flourish to rival the best of vaudeville performances, he unveiled the gramophone.† (source)
- You sound like some vaudevillian.† (source)
- Several acts of vaudeville tonight for my entertainment.† (source)
- And from behind the screen, hand in hand, flashing uniform vaudevillian smiles, came Sophie and Nathan dancing a little two-step and wearing some of the most bewitchingly tailored clothes I had ever seen.† (source)
- Whatever she does or says is burnished with an almost vaudevillian touch.† (source)
- At length, without a sound, the lid of the coffin on the upper shelf to his left lifted three inches and a white-gloved hand, limp as the glove of a vaudeville clown, groped along the edge.† (source)
- The decoration scheme for the walls was, in fact, the brain child—with Mrs. Glass's unreserved spiritual sanction and everlastingly withheld formal consent—of Mr. Les Glass, the children's father, a former international vaudevillian and, no doubt, an inveterate and wistful admirer of the wall decor at Sardi's theatrical restaurant.† (source)
- They came to the brilliantly lighted facade of a big vaudeville house.† (source)
- Disguises, vaudevilles, multiple personalities, diseases, conversations.† (source)
- He never realized that many of the satirical songs he had written for the vaudevilles passed into folk-music and have been borne everywhere along the highroads.† (source)
- Is it an inspiring sight to see a man commit a heroic gesture, and then learn that he goes to vaudeville shows for relaxation?† (source)
- No shoes no socks no underwear no shirt no gloves no hat no necktie no collarbuttons no vest no coat no movies no vaudeville no football not even a shave.† (source)
- However, he wasn't just their entertainer; when he turned grave and stopped the vaudeville with a pair of somber eyes he got earnest silence for the speech he was going to make, and a full weight of respect.† (source)
- I went to the office and looked up their records and found that most of them had spent their lives playing cheap vaudeville.† (source)
- Very well, since the only way to get rid of you is to play the vaudeville stooge, I shall ask the proper question: Who was in dear Gail's office today?† (source)
- She had a wonderful memory of journeying to a strange part of Brooklyn to see the great Sarah Bernhardt in a one-act play in a Keith vaudeville house.† (source)
- I had thought that they played vaudeville because the legitimate theater was barred to them, and now it turned out that they wanted none of the legitimate theater, that they were scared spitless at the prospects of appearing in a play that the public might not like, even though they did not understand that public and had no way of determining its likes or dislikes.† (source)
- Well, do you want to get in a comedy or on the vaudeville or in the chorus?† (source)
- Even Raymie lost his simple faith, and tried to show that he could do a vaudeville shuffle.† (source)
- Suffering would be out of place in vaudevilles, for instance; I know that.† (source)
- He had had a piece rejected at the Vaudeville.† (source)
- 'I also write vaudevilles of all sorts.'† (source)
- He had played in vaudeville at Saint-Mihiel.† (source)
- He called on the famous actors and vaudeville artists when they came to town, gave them cigars, addressed them by their first names, and—sometimes—succeeded in bringing them to the Boosters' lunches to give The Boys a Free Entertainment.† (source)
- This feeling was surcharged by listening to the sad tunes of the orchestra, reminiscent of the melancholy music played for acrobats in vaudeville.† (source)
- Didn't Clif, with his puppy-dog humor, his speech of a vaudeville farmer, his suspicion of fine manners as posing, take life too easily?† (source)
- She told him that she "adored" vaudeville, that her father, Andrew Jackson Tozer, was born in the East (by which she meant Illinois), and that she didn't particularly care for nursing.† (source)
- Erik gave an imitation of the Greek dancers he had seen in vaudeville, and when they sat down to picnic supper spread on a lap-robe on the grass, Cy climbed a tree to throw acorns at them.† (source)
- …walls, bounded from the ceiling of lavender-bordered milky tiles, while the lords of the city, the barons of insurance and law and fertilizers and motor tires, laid down the law for Zenith; announced that the day was warm-indeed, indisputably of spring; that wages were too high and the interest on mortgages too low; that Babe Ruth, the eminent player of baseball, was a noble man; and that "those two nuts at the Climax Vaudeville Theater this week certainly are a slick pair of actors."† (source)
- The first night, he was able to check against pyrophobia, for at the vaudeville with Leora, when on the stage a dancer lighted a brazier, he sat waiting for the theater to take fire.† (source)
- This altogether admirable tradition rules the vaudeville stage, facetious illustrators, and syndicated newspaper humor, but out of actual life it passed forty years ago.† (source)
- It did not seem to be a tabloid university; it did not seem to be any kind of a university; it seemed to be a combination of vaudeville performance Y. M. C. A. lecture, and the graduation exercises of an elocution class.† (source)
- You procure your mistresses from the opera, the Vaudeville, or the Varietes; I purchased mine at Constantinople; it cost me more, but I have nothing to fear.† (source)
- Beside the vaudeville aspirants, another group, which was also taking advantage of the uproar to talk low, was discussing a duel.† (source)
- Impossible to conceal ourselves inside it without the artists seeing us, and then they will get off simply by countermanding the vaudeville.† (source)
- Near Grantaire, an almost silent table, a sheet of paper, an inkstand and a pen between two glasses of brandy, announced that a vaudeville was being sketched out.† (source)
- And she hummed scraps of vaudevilles, as though she had been alone, frolicsome refrains which her hoarse and guttural voice rendered lugubrious.† (source)
- The theatres open their doors and present vaudevilles; the curious laugh and chat a couple of paces distant from these streets filled with war.† (source)
- If he likes vaudeville, he goes to a /music-hall/, where the /head-liners/ are /top-liners/.† (source)
- /Plaza/, /boulevard/, /vaudeville/, /menu/ and /rathskeller/ have entered into the common speech of the land, and are pronounced as American words.† (source)
- In 1895 Weber and Fields tried to establish /music-hall/ in New York, but it quickly succumbed to /vaudeville-theatre/, as /variety/ had succumbed to /vaudeville/ before it.† (source)
- Examples are afforded by /café/, /vaudeville/, /employé/, /boulevard/, /cabaret/, /toilette/, /exposé/, /kindergarten/, /dépôt/, /fête/ and /menu/.† (source)
- [16] The boys with whom he plays baseball speak a tongue that is not the one taught in school, and so do the youths with whom he will begin learning a trade tomorrow, and the girl he will marry later on, and the saloon-keepers, star pitchers, vaudeville comedians, business [Pg187] sharpers and political mountebanks he will look up to and try to imitate all the rest of his life.† (source)
- /Vaudeville/ is /vawd-vill/; /boulevard/ has a hard /d/ at the end; /plaza/ has two flat /a/'s; the first syllable of /menu/ rhymes with /bee/; the first of /rathskeller/ with /cats/; /fiancée/ is /fy-ancé-y/; /née/ rhymes with /see/; /décolleté/ is /de-coll-ty/; /hofbräu/ is /huffbrow/; the German /w/ has lost its /v/-sound and becomes an American /w/.† (source)
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