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Word: theatric (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...American lives, loves, liberties and laughter were being exhibited everywhere on Europe's battered boards, from London's Globe to Rome's Quirino. European plays about Americans, and Europeans' reaction to the flood of imported U.S. plays, reflected-in the bizarre but revealing light of theatric truth-what other nations think Americans are like...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: REFLECTIONS: The Play's the Thing | 3/24/1947 | See Source »

...course Elliott Roosevelt could have made a spectacular and theatric gesture and enlisted as a private, thereby accruing to himself temporary praise, but as everyone knows within a few months he would have been offered a commission as would any other man of h.s age, experience and position...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Nov. 11, 1940 | 11/11/1940 | See Source »

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