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Word: seemlier (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...whole thing is decorously romantic -for it is always infinitely seemlier for the Lunts to live in sin together than in the utmost respectability apart. Throughout the evening, they offer slightly grander and more empedestaled versions of their time-honored selves; and by now, indeed, Lynn Fontanne and Alfred Lunt are much less actors than roles. Now, once again, they manifest their uniqueness. She provides a heraldic squeal or purr; he drops to a sudden flawless guttural pianissimo; each not merely throws away a line, but throws it, with a double backward flip, over an exiting left shoulder...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: New Play in Manhattan, Nov. 15, 1954 | 11/15/1954 | See Source »

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