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Word: distaffina (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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There is little actual record of the first evening's performance except that which has been left by the secretary of the club in an astonishing doggerel. He writes that "A fragile boy as thickhipped Distaffina sung and skipped" and chronicled the actions of the other members of the cast in a similar manager. He spends more time, however, in a description of one of the club's annual celebrations and ends his poem as follows...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Modern Hasty Pudding Shows Are at Opposite Pole From Those of Earliest Years--First Comic Sketch in 1844 | 4/16/1925 | See Source »

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