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Word: theatric (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Usage:

...West writes crudely, theatrically, about crude, theatric, low-life types; is crudely effective. She seems to know her Harlem, her thieves' argot, her underworld women...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Fairy Tale Among Factories* | 11/17/1930 | See Source »

...most serviceable of first-night choices. The cast was headed by Soprano Maria Miiller who was pretty, capable, unexciting; Tenor Giovanni Martinelli who sang loudly. The best performance was by Conductor Tullio Serafin who treated the great tunes tenderly, kept the whole moving at a swift and theatric pace...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Up Go Curtains | 11/3/1930 | See Source »

...individual singers. Hence, last week, friends of Conductor Tullio Serafin of the Metropolitan Opera Company were pleased to hear of homage paid him in Philadelphia, where he appeared three times as guest conductor of the Philadelphia Orchestra, where he imparted to taxing symphonic programs the same glancing, theatric charm that has characterized his best performances at Manhattan's opera house...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Collegians | 3/17/1930 | See Source »

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