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Word: preachments (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...play is partly preachment but it is so exciting that even Otto Kahn, you may be certain, would wish to set his teeth in the ear of the suave, knavish judge and in that of the dirty district attorney. The minor parts are badly taken; but Charles Bickford, as the flaring Macready, Horace Braham, as the less truculent, beseeching Capraro, and Sylvia Sidney, as the well-gowned and eventually hysterical fiancee of the former make you, as one shrill memuer of the audience remarked, wish to "go to Boston and kill a few people...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: New Plays in Manhattan: Nov. 5, 1928 | 11/5/1928 | See Source »

...OUTSIDER?Lionel Atwill and Katherine Cornell make big medicine out of dramatic quackery. RAIN?Effective preachment for missionaries here and abroad...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: The Best Plays: May 26, 1924 | 5/26/1924 | See Source »

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