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Word: daffiest (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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These tykes are acting the daffiest of all murder plays, Arsenic and Old Lace, at a special Broadway matinee. They are students at Manhattan's Professional Children s School, which does not train child actors, but educates them and where classmates are apt to turn up of a morning with dyed hair or altered features. These Lds thought nothing of playing such parts in Arsenic as a pair of motherly old poisoners, a drama critic who loathes the theater, a clank who thinks he is Teddy Roosevelt, a killer who tries to look like Boris Karloff. Old hands...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: MOPPETUNITY KNOCKS | 12/27/1943 | See Source »

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