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Word: nightdresses (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Wynn is the featured jester: he who is plump and lisping, who wears horn glasses and exhibits inventions. This year he has fashioned a nightdress guaranteed not to become uncomfortably entwined about the body ? it is truncated under the arms. As a Coney Island shop-owner who falls asleep and dreams of Fairyland, he wanders into enchanted woods. "I love the woods," he continually explains. There he is troubled by large and grotesque faces, by a contortionistic frog. He tells a story of a carrier pigeon whose wings were injured but who still managed to reach his destination...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theatre: New Plays in Manhattan: Mar. 3, 1930 | 3/3/1930 | See Source »

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