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91Pinter, Harold — born Oct. 10, 1930, London, Eng. British playwright and actor. Born into a working class family, he acted with touring companies until 1959. His early one act plays were followed by the full length The Birthday Party (1958). His next major plays …
92Vico, Giambattista — born June 23, 1668, Naples died Jan. 23, 1744, Naples Italian philosopher of cultural history and law. In his major work, New Science (1725), he attempted to combine history and the more systematic social sciences into a single science of… …
93wheedlingly — adverb In a wheedling manner …
94whillywha — noun a) a flattering deceiver b) wheedling speech, cajolery …
95beggarlike — adjective Resembling a beggar or some aspect of one: poor, wheedling, insolent, etc. Syn: beggarly …
96Paul Legrand — Nadar: Paul Legrand as Pierrot, c. 1857. Musée d Orsay, Paris Paul Legrand (1816–1898), born Charles Dominique Martin Legrand, was a highly regarded and influential French mime who turned the Pierrot of his predecessor, Jean Gaspard Deburau, into …
97Baby Mine — Margaret Mayo s farce opened on 23 August 1910, ran for 287 performances at Daly s Theatre in New York, had as many as six road companies at once, and was translated into several languages. William A. Brady produced the play with a cast that… …
98adulation — Synonyms and related words: acclaim, accolade, apotheosis, applause, bepraisement, blandishment, blarney, bunkum, cajolement, cajolery, compliment, congratulation, deification, eloge, encomium, eulogium, eulogy, exaltation, excessive praise,… …
99allurement — Synonyms and related words: adduction, adorability, affinity, agreeability, amiability, appeal, attractance, attraction, attractiveness, attractivity, bait, blandishment, cajolement, cajolery, call, capillarity, capillary attraction, centripetal… …
100bland — Synonyms and related words: abstract, adulatory, balmy, banal, bare, barren, blah, blandishing, blank, blarneying, bleached, boring, broad, buttery, cajoling, calm, changeable, characterless, civilized, clear, collective, complimentary, composed …
