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Word: nighter (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1924-1924
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...Haunted House. That strangely combined optimist and cynic, the first-nighter, shook off the lethargy that has consumed him through the mass of inconsequentiality thus far produced this season. He was going to a play by Owen Davis, with Wallace Eddinger in the lead. He relied on the tradition of ably-contrived amusement that these two have reared. He emerged dispirited. The tradition had tumbled...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theatre: New Plays: Sep. 15, 1924 | 9/15/1924 | See Source »

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