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Word: whorish (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...theatre around him does not interest Odets much. He goes to about three shows a year. He has stopped reading all playwrights but Shakespeare and Ibsen: "I have nothing to learn from American plays any more." Acting he calls "a whorish thing." But now & then he would like a good part in someone else's play, simply to retain his feel of the stage...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: White Hope | 12/5/1938 | See Source »

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