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Word: quippishly (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1963-1963
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Usage:

...marketplace-hack writers, foxy talent agents, dubbed-in laugh effects men-who cast horoscopes under the sign of the dollar to see if the public will prefer the TV story of a myna bird that refuses to talk or a chimpanzee that plays Lady Macbeth. The dialogue is more quippish than witty, but the hip mass-media-men-at-work lingo scatters the laughs over an occasional drab patch of script. The life of the play is in the instinctive mendacity of its con-man hero. The Albatross flies where Sammy Glick once...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: Move Over, Sammy Glick | 12/27/1963 | See Source »

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