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Word: dottiest (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...reasonable, the Mercury took on the financial gamble with the same light-heartedness with which it took on the cumbrous play itself. When Heartbreak House was presented last week under Welles's direction and with himself in the leading role of 88-year-old Captain Shotover, even the dottiest Mercury fan could not help having qualms. For this more-than-three-hours-long,* brilliant Mad-Hatter symposium on modern life is among the most difficult of Shaw's major dramas: garrulous, subterranean, exhaustive. But, skirting a forest of unintelligibility on the one side, and a swamp of tediousness...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: Marvelous Boy | 5/9/1938 | See Source »

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