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...Haunt Manhattan's better taprooms in dismal abstinence (Lewis, once no mean tosspot, is under strict doctor's orders not to touch liquor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Laureate of the Boobolsie | 10/8/1945 | See Source »

Credit Lines. Best performance by an actor: Frank Fay, as the gentle, rabbit-fancying tosspot in Harvey...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: Curtain Call | 6/18/1945 | See Source »

...Tosspot Tempest. In Manhattan, Katherine O'Connor, denied drink by a saloonkeeper, heaved three barstools into his bar mirror, swept 36 cocktail glasses to the floor, smashed 48 beer glasses, bounced 36 empty bottles off the walls, was finally bounced herself...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Jan. 15, 1945 | 1/15/1945 | See Source »

Harvey (by Mary Coyle Chase; produced by Brock Pemberton) is the funniest and most likable fantasy that Broadway has seen in years. Described in one sentence, this yarn about a balmy tosspot who knows an imaginary outsized rabbit named Harvey may suggest all the horrors of relentless whimsy. Distributed over three acts, Elwood P. Dowd and the hare of the dog that bit him become a delightful adventure in wackiness...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: New Plays in Manhattan, Nov. 13, 1944 | 11/13/1944 | See Source »

...Over. the radio Dr. Robert Ley, brutal tosspot chief of the Nazi Labor Front, screamed: "Blue-blooded swine, lunatics, idiots, criminals, murderers, reactionaries...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GERMANY: Crack of Doom | 7/31/1944 | See Source »

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