vaudeville

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He was playing, as they say in vaudeville, to a different "house".

From BBC • Mar. 7, 2026

By the 1890s, “millions of Americans go out to vaudeville shows every week,” says Monod.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 15, 2026

For all its verbal vaudeville, though, this holiday pageant occasionally hints at Thomas’s abiding theme, death.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 19, 2025

With his country twang and aw-shucks mannerisms belying a keen intellect, Will Rogers was the lasso-roping star of vaudeville and the Broadway stage.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 7, 2025

On a bracing afternoon, he escorted Weaver into the Radiation Laboratory and showed him the twenty-seven-inch cyclotron, not skimping on the vaudeville of the lavender deuteron beam shooting into the air.

From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik