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Word: rotter (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...move out on her producer and ex-lover (Leon Ames). He tells her contemptuously that he made her what she is, that she couldn't play Hedda for peanuts, and that if she leaves him he will publicize her Past. At this point Rosalind crowns the rotter with a statuette...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The New Pictures, Aug. 30, 1948 | 8/30/1948 | See Source »

...horridly ill-mannered, thoroughly selfish, slothfully inclined person . . . smugly superior and insufferably condescending. . . . By your own account you come near . . . being a rotter...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: So You Want an Answer? | 11/22/1943 | See Source »

Letters to Lucerne (by Fritz Rotter & Allen Vincent; produced by Dwight Deere Wiman). War, via letters from home, comes to a small Swiss boarding school, peopled with girls of many nationalities. The junior misses, the most attractive part of the play (see p. 54), are nice but inadequate when they try to cope with worldwide catastrophe...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: New Plays in Manhattan, Jan. 5, 1942 | 1/5/1942 | See Source »

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