vaudeville
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He was playing, as they say in vaudeville, to a different "house".
From BBC • Mar. 7, 2026
Stewart purchased and is restoring the Highland Theatre, a cultural landmark that once hosted vaudeville acts.
From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 4, 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
It plays out cheerily as a kind of vaudeville show.
From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 17, 2025
Like the guy in the old vaudeville skit, the guy in the folding cot that won’t stay folded, Jerome flipped straight up, wide awake.
From "Middlesex: A Novel" by Jeffrey Eugenides
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