Word: frothier
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...past three years the Dramatic Club, sole remaining remnant of the one-time famous Harvard drama department, has produced plenty of flop shows. The officers deserted their policy of trying out experiments for one of attracting the public with lighter, frothier material than Auden, Isherwood, and T, S. Eliot. Unfortunately, the compromise policy has fallen flat and the H. D. C. has lost the prestige of its old daring innovations without gaining any compensatory lucre at the box-office...
...Manhattan, last week, a town jester named Peter Arno held his first art exhibit. Artist Arno is a social satirist. Frothier, less pungent than such satirists as Beerbohm and Bateman, he nevertheless makes sprightly comments on violations of taste and decorum. He lies in wait for those moments when civilized people burst through their shimmering camouflage of gentlity and blatantly expose rage, sex, silliness...