Word: helplessnoss
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...moment an actor closes his eyes, hitches up his trousers, and starts gaspeing for words he creates in the mind of his audience a favorable prejudice which will make up for all the sins he may subsequently commit. William Hodge has mastered this sort of stage helplessnoss. He has learned to lie down and let the rest of the cast walk over him in the same passive manner in which Andrew Gump, that great idol of the middle West, obeys the call...
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