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Word: hellza (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1939-1939
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Tall, dashing John Anderson (Journal & American) is Broadway's supreme critic of bad plays, with a great gift for wise cracking down on them. ("[Jeremiah] may be entered ... as prophet and loss"; "Twenty years is a long time, except be tween wars.") Anderson was No. 1 Hellza-poppin-hater. Though murderous with fanciness and fake, he is sometimes too clever and cynical at the expense of a serious play...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: Makers & Breakers | 5/1/1939 | See Source »

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