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Word: ruritanian (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...this, along with a highly vocalized romance between Kosciuszko and a Polish girl (Marta Eggerth), is drenched in thicker-than-usual musicomedy mulligatawny. Crowds of peasants, more Ruritanian than Polish, whirl about with almost frightening energy; court balls are halted by the alarums of war; battlefields, bathed in lurid crimson light, are agitated by frantic flag-waving ballets...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: New Musical in Manhattan, Oct. 15, 1945 | 10/15/1945 | See Source »

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