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He further squandered much of the 1960s in farces like "Boeing-Boeing" with Jerry Lewis, "The Great Race," "Not With My Wife, You Don't!" and "Arrivederci, Baby!"

Tony Curtis dies at 85: Iconic actor starred in 'Some Like It Hot' Adam Bernstein 2010

When old Sylvester unclosed his eyes from the delivery of thanks, he discovered at the back of Mrs. Carrack and her son's chairs, the two city servants in livery, with their short cut hair and embroidered coats of the fashion of those worn in English farces on the stage, standing erect and without the motion of a muscle.

Chanticleer A Thanksgiving Story of the Peabody Family Cornelius Mathews 1853

Government were happy to throw money at forces to implement the ANPR system, they happily trumpet it all over the NPIA website but don ` t resource it properly in farces.

Essex Boys (Loose Cars and Fast Women) « POLICE INSPECTOR BLOG Inspector Gadget 2009

They're also like Feydeau farces, which is in no way to disparage them.

Cops and Robbers Atwood, Margaret 2002

Gaiety Theatre, she, who, like all optimists, habitually frequented those playhouses where she could behold gloomy tragedies, awful melodramas, or those ironic pieces called farces, in which the ultimate misery of which human nature is capable is drawn to its farthest point.

The Prophet of Berkeley Square Robert Smythe Hichens 1907

Often they passed without difficulty into direct dramatic presentation in short farces.

A History of the French Novel, Vol. 1 From the Beginning to 1800 George Saintsbury 1889

Would you not suppose these persons had been whispered, by the Master of the Ceremonies the promise of some momentous destiny? and that this Lukewarm bullet on which they play their farces was the bull's-eye and centrepoint of all the universe?

The Pocket R.L.S., being favourite passages from the works of Stevenson Robert Louis Stevenson 1872

Comedy and farces are referred to indiscriminately, but the farces were the most recurring plague.

The Life of Charles Dickens, Vol. I-III, Complete John Forster 1844

This amusement they added to their dances, and they produced what are now called farces, or burlettas.

The Works of Samuel Johnson, Volume 05 Miscellaneous Pieces Samuel Johnson 1746

Master of the Ceremonies, the promise of some momentous destiny? and that this lukewarm bullet on which they play their farces was the bull’s-eye and centrepoint of all the universe?

Virginibus Puerisque and other papers 2005