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Word: tumbrils (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1939-1939
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...look at all those bastards out front." He is in a constant dither that his show will flop. After one opening that had the audience rolling in the aisles, the leading man found Kaufman crushed against a wall "looking a little like the late Marie Antoinette in the tumbril...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: Past Master | 11/20/1939 | See Source »

...subtitle of William Harlan Hale's novel about Hannibal Hooker puts the tumbril before the horse: His Death and Adventures. This inversion is no accident...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Death and Transfiguration | 2/20/1939 | See Source »

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