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Word: snivels (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1929-1929
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...baldish, bespectacled Robert Littell of the Evening Post (.809).* Prognosticating a play's financial luck has but little to do with that synthesis of taste, dogma and analysis which is dramatic criticism. It is a question of audience psychology, of knowing what will make the playgoing mass guffaw, snivel, clap its hands. Thus Critic Littell's victory may have surprised friends who knew that the 1928-29 season had been his first as a daily critic (with the public duty to pronounce on a play's likelihood of "success''). Hitherto he has concerned himself with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theatre: Best Guesser | 6/17/1929 | See Source »

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