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Word: cringer (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1944-1944
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...Strike a New Note Field is one minute rolling up laughs as a cockney cornet player ("a weedy little buffer . . . half a bully and half a cringer"), the next minute as a suave, Oxford-bred musician who performs on a ramshackle glockenspiel. As a poetry-spouting drunk, he garnishes a skit that contains the show's other drawing card, London's best-known bottle-hymn, I'm Going to Get Lit-Up When the Lights Go Up in London...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: Fame Begins at 40 | 3/6/1944 | See Source »

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