Chapter I

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changed in order to improve or made more fit for a particular purpose

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plural of “agent” — an active and efficient cause; capable of producing a certain effect

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(quantifier) used with either mass or count nouns to indicate the whole number or amount of or every one of a class

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someone who pursues a study or sport as a pastime

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North American republic containing 50 states - 48 conterminous states in North America plus Alaska in northwest North America and the Hawaiian Islands in the Pacific Ocean; achieved independence in 1776

From this reading Manufactured in the United States of America _On Thursday, October twenty-first, 1926, at Irving M. Lesser’s Great Neck Playhouse, Great Neck, Long Island, the Charles Frohman Company, Gilbert Miller, Managing Director, presented Holbrook Blinn in THE PLAY’S THE THING by Ferenc Molnar, for the first time on any stage in any language.

used to join words or parts of a sentence that go together

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one or some or every or all without specification

From this reading Manufactured in the United States of America _On Thursday, October twenty-first, 1926, at Irving M. Lesser’s Great Neck Playhouse, Great Neck, Long Island, the Charles Frohman Company, Gilbert Miller, Managing Director, presented Holbrook Blinn in THE PLAY’S THE THING by Ferenc Molnar, for the first time on any stage in any language.

the act of bringing something to bear; using it for a particular purpose

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the form of “be” used with you, we, they, or a plural noun

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in or near a particular place or position

From this reading Manufactured in the United States of America _On Thursday, October twenty-first, 1926, at Irving M. Lesser’s Great Neck Playhouse, Great Neck, Long Island, the Charles Frohman Company, Gilbert Miller, Managing Director, presented Holbrook Blinn in THE PLAY’S THE THING by Ferenc Molnar, for the first time on any stage in any language.

kindly endorsement and guidance

From this reading The play was presented for the first time in New York City under the same auspices at Henry Miller’s Theatre on Wednesday, November the third, 1926.

writes (books or stories or articles or the like) professionally (for pay)

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used with a past participle to form the passive, or with -ing for continuous tenses

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From this reading Manufactured in the United States of America _On Thursday, October twenty-first, 1926, at Irving M. Lesser’s Great Neck Playhouse, Great Neck, Long Island, the Charles Frohman Company, Gilbert Miller, Managing Director, presented Holbrook Blinn in THE PLAY’S THE THING by Ferenc Molnar, for the first time on any stage in any language.

showing who or what does the action

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the work of providing treatment for or attending to someone or something

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King of France from 1560 to 1574 whose reign was dominated by his mother Catherine de Medicis (1550-1574)

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a large and densely populated urban area; may include several independent administrative districts

From this reading The play was presented for the first time in New York City under the same auspices at Henry Miller’s Theatre on Wednesday, November the third, 1926.

an institution created to conduct business

From this reading Manufactured in the United States of America _On Thursday, October twenty-first, 1926, at Irving M. Lesser’s Great Neck Playhouse, Great Neck, Long Island, the Charles Frohman Company, Gilbert Miller, Managing Director, presented Holbrook Blinn in THE PLAY’S THE THING by Ferenc Molnar, for the first time on any stage in any language.

permission to do something

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someone who controls resources and expenditures

From this reading Manufactured in the United States of America _On Thursday, October twenty-first, 1926, at Irving M. Lesser’s Great Neck Playhouse, Great Neck, Long Island, the Charles Frohman Company, Gilbert Miller, Managing Director, presented Holbrook Blinn in THE PLAY’S THE THING by Ferenc Molnar, for the first time on any stage in any language.

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From this reading Manufactured in the United States of America _On Thursday, October twenty-first, 1926, at Irving M. Lesser’s Great Neck Playhouse, Great Neck, Long Island, the Charles Frohman Company, Gilbert Miller, Managing Director, presented Holbrook Blinn in THE PLAY’S THE THING by Ferenc Molnar, for the first time on any stage in any language.

preceding all others in time or space or degree

From this reading Manufactured in the United States of America _On Thursday, October twenty-first, 1926, at Irving M. Lesser’s Great Neck Playhouse, Great Neck, Long Island, the Charles Frohman Company, Gilbert Miller, Managing Director, presented Holbrook Blinn in THE PLAY’S THE THING by Ferenc Molnar, for the first time on any stage in any language.

intended to be given to, or used by, somebody

From this reading Manufactured in the United States of America _On Thursday, October twenty-first, 1926, at Irving M. Lesser’s Great Neck Playhouse, Great Neck, Long Island, the Charles Frohman Company, Gilbert Miller, Managing Director, presented Holbrook Blinn in THE PLAY’S THE THING by Ferenc Molnar, for the first time on any stage in any language.

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showing where something starts, or who sent it

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a metric unit of weight equal to one thousandth of a kilogram

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a unit of magnetomotive force equal to 0.7958 ampere-turns

From this reading Manufactured in the United States of America _On Thursday, October twenty-first, 1926, at Irving M. Lesser’s Great Neck Playhouse, Great Neck, Long Island, the Charles Frohman Company, Gilbert Miller, Managing Director, presented Holbrook Blinn in THE PLAY’S THE THING by Ferenc Molnar, for the first time on any stage in any language.

acknowledged as a supposition

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relatively large in size or number or extent; larger than others of its kind

From this reading Manufactured in the United States of America _On Thursday, October twenty-first, 1926, at Irving M. Lesser’s Great Neck Playhouse, Great Neck, Long Island, the Charles Frohman Company, Gilbert Miller, Managing Director, presented Holbrook Blinn in THE PLAY’S THE THING by Ferenc Molnar, for the first time on any stage in any language.

a unit of inductance in which an induced electromotive force of one volt is produced when the current is varied at the rate of one ampere per second

From this reading The play was presented for the first time in New York City under the same auspices at Henry Miller’s Theatre on Wednesday, November the third, 1926.

belonging to a man, boy, or male animal already mentioned

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From this reading Manufactured in the United States of America _On Thursday, October twenty-first, 1926, at Irving M. Lesser’s Great Neck Playhouse, Great Neck, Long Island, the Charles Frohman Company, Gilbert Miller, Managing Director, presented Holbrook Blinn in THE PLAY’S THE THING by Ferenc Molnar, for the first time on any stage in any language.

relating to or characteristic of Hungary

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inside something, or within a place, period, or state

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a heterogeneous collection of groups united in their opposition to Saddam Hussein's government of Iraq; formed in 1992 it is comprised of Sunni and Shiite Arabs and Kurds who hope to build a new government

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-ing form of “include” — have as a part, be made up out of

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United States writer remembered for his stories (1783-1859)

From this reading Manufactured in the United States of America _On Thursday, October twenty-first, 1926, at Irving M. Lesser’s Great Neck Playhouse, Great Neck, Long Island, the Charles Frohman Company, Gilbert Miller, Managing Director, presented Holbrook Blinn in THE PLAY’S THE THING by Ferenc Molnar, for the first time on any stage in any language.

a land mass (smaller than a continent) that is surrounded by water

From this reading Manufactured in the United States of America _On Thursday, October twenty-first, 1926, at Irving M. Lesser’s Great Neck Playhouse, Great Neck, Long Island, the Charles Frohman Company, Gilbert Miller, Managing Director, presented Holbrook Blinn in THE PLAY’S THE THING by Ferenc Molnar, for the first time on any stage in any language.

a systematic means of communicating by the use of sounds or conventional symbols

From this reading Manufactured in the United States of America _On Thursday, October twenty-first, 1926, at Irving M. Lesser’s Great Neck Playhouse, Great Neck, Long Island, the Charles Frohman Company, Gilbert Miller, Managing Director, presented Holbrook Blinn in THE PLAY’S THE THING by Ferenc Molnar, for the first time on any stage in any language.

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From this reading Manufactured in the United States of America _On Thursday, October twenty-first, 1926, at Irving M. Lesser’s Great Neck Playhouse, Great Neck, Long Island, the Charles Frohman Company, Gilbert Miller, Managing Director, presented Holbrook Blinn in THE PLAY’S THE THING by Ferenc Molnar, for the first time on any stage in any language.

primarily temporal sense; being or indicating a relatively great or greater than average duration or passage of time or a duration as specified

From this reading Manufactured in the United States of America _On Thursday, October twenty-first, 1926, at Irving M. Lesser’s Great Neck Playhouse, Great Neck, Long Island, the Charles Frohman Company, Gilbert Miller, Managing Director, presented Holbrook Blinn in THE PLAY’S THE THING by Ferenc Molnar, for the first time on any stage in any language.

the basic unit of length adopted under the Systeme International d'Unites (approximately 1.094 yards)

From this reading Manufactured in the United States of America _On Thursday, October twenty-first, 1926, at Irving M. Lesser’s Great Neck Playhouse, Great Neck, Long Island, the Charles Frohman Company, Gilbert Miller, Managing Director, presented Holbrook Blinn in THE PLAY’S THE THING by Ferenc Molnar, for the first time on any stage in any language.

produced by a manufacturing process

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-ing form of “manage” — be successful; achieve a goal

From this reading Manufactured in the United States of America _On Thursday, October twenty-first, 1926, at Irving M. Lesser’s Great Neck Playhouse, Great Neck, Long Island, the Charles Frohman Company, Gilbert Miller, Managing Director, presented Holbrook Blinn in THE PLAY’S THE THING by Ferenc Molnar, for the first time on any stage in any language.

produced in a large-scale industrial operation

From this reading Manufactured in the United States of America _On Thursday, October twenty-first, 1926, at Irving M. Lesser’s Great Neck Playhouse, Great Neck, Long Island, the Charles Frohman Company, Gilbert Miller, Managing Director, presented Holbrook Blinn in THE PLAY’S THE THING by Ferenc Molnar, for the first time on any stage in any language.

used to say something is possible, or to give permission

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United States bandleader of a popular big band (1909-1944)

From this reading Manufactured in the United States of America _On Thursday, October twenty-first, 1926, at Irving M. Lesser’s Great Neck Playhouse, Great Neck, Long Island, the Charles Frohman Company, Gilbert Miller, Managing Director, presented Holbrook Blinn in THE PLAY’S THE THING by Ferenc Molnar, for the first time on any stage in any language.

possessive form of “miller” — United States bandleader of a popular big band (1909-1944)

From this reading The play was presented for the first time in New York City under the same auspices at Henry Miller’s Theatre on Wednesday, November the third, 1926.

Hungarian playwright (1878-1952)

From this reading Manufactured in the United States of America _On Thursday, October twenty-first, 1926, at Irving M. Lesser’s Great Neck Playhouse, Great Neck, Long Island, the Charles Frohman Company, Gilbert Miller, Managing Director, presented Holbrook Blinn in THE PLAY’S THE THING by Ferenc Molnar, for the first time on any stage in any language.

the use of movements (especially of the hands) to communicate familiar or prearranged signals

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the part of an organism (human or animal) that connects the head to the rest of the body

From this reading Manufactured in the United States of America _On Thursday, October twenty-first, 1926, at Irving M. Lesser’s Great Neck Playhouse, Great Neck, Long Island, the Charles Frohman Company, Gilbert Miller, Managing Director, presented Holbrook Blinn in THE PLAY’S THE THING by Ferenc Molnar, for the first time on any stage in any language.

not of long duration; having just (or relatively recently) come into being or been made or acquired or discovered

From this reading The play was presented for the first time in New York City under the same auspices at Henry Miller’s Theatre on Wednesday, November the third, 1926.

not any; not one

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the month following October and preceding December

From this reading The play was presented for the first time in New York City under the same auspices at Henry Miller’s Theatre on Wednesday, November the third, 1926.

the month following September and preceding November

From this reading Manufactured in the United States of America _On Thursday, October twenty-first, 1926, at Irving M. Lesser’s Great Neck Playhouse, Great Neck, Long Island, the Charles Frohman Company, Gilbert Miller, Managing Director, presented Holbrook Blinn in THE PLAY’S THE THING by Ferenc Molnar, for the first time on any stage in any language.

belonging to, or connected with, somebody or something

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touching and supported by a surface

From this reading Manufactured in the United States of America _On Thursday, October twenty-first, 1926, at Irving M. Lesser’s Great Neck Playhouse, Great Neck, Long Island, the Charles Frohman Company, Gilbert Miller, Managing Director, presented Holbrook Blinn in THE PLAY’S THE THING by Ferenc Molnar, for the first time on any stage in any language.

used to join alternatives or possibilities

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a multivalent nonmetallic element of the nitrogen family that occurs commonly in inorganic phosphate rocks and as organic phosphates in all living cells; is highly reactive and occurs in several allotropic forms

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a dramatic or musical entertainment

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a visual representation (of an object or scene or person or abstraction) produced on a surface

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participate in games or sport

From this reading The play was presented for the first time in New York City under the same auspices at Henry Miller’s Theatre on Wednesday, November the third, 1926.

possessive form of “play” — a dramatic work intended for performance by actors on a stage

From this reading Manufactured in the United States of America _On Thursday, October twenty-first, 1926, at Irving M. Lesser’s Great Neck Playhouse, Great Neck, Long Island, the Charles Frohman Company, Gilbert Miller, Managing Director, presented Holbrook Blinn in THE PLAY’S THE THING by Ferenc Molnar, for the first time on any stage in any language.

plaything consisting of a small model of a house that children can play inside of

From this reading Manufactured in the United States of America _On Thursday, October twenty-first, 1926, at Irving M. Lesser’s Great Neck Playhouse, Great Neck, Long Island, the Charles Frohman Company, Gilbert Miller, Managing Director, presented Holbrook Blinn in THE PLAY’S THE THING by Ferenc Molnar, for the first time on any stage in any language.

past form of “present” — give an exhibition of to an interested audience

From this reading Manufactured in the United States of America _On Thursday, October twenty-first, 1926, at Irving M. Lesser’s Great Neck Playhouse, Great Neck, Long Island, the Charles Frohman Company, Gilbert Miller, Managing Director, presented Holbrook Blinn in THE PLAY’S THE THING by Ferenc Molnar, for the first time on any stage in any language.

the act or process of producing something

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people in general considered as a whole

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the cognitive process of understanding a written linguistic message

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generally approved or compelling recognition

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set aside for the use of a particular person or party

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plural of “right” — an abstract idea of that which is due to a person or governmental body by law or tradition or nature

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Identical; not different.

From this reading The play was presented for the first time in New York City under the same auspices at Henry Miller’s Theatre on Wednesday, November the third, 1926.

used to say what is right, expected, or advisable

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any distinct time period in a sequence of events

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plural of “state” — the territory occupied by one of the constituent administrative districts of a nation

From this reading Manufactured in the United States of America _On Thursday, October twenty-first, 1926, at Irving M. Lesser’s Great Neck Playhouse, Great Neck, Long Island, the Charles Frohman Company, Gilbert Miller, Managing Director, presented Holbrook Blinn in THE PLAY’S THE THING by Ferenc Molnar, for the first time on any stage in any language.

used before a noun that is already known, already mentioned, or the only one of its kind

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a building where theatrical performances or motion-picture shows can be presented

From this reading The play was presented for the first time in New York City under the same auspices at Henry Miller’s Theatre on Wednesday, November the third, 1926.

a special situation

From this reading Manufactured in the United States of America _On Thursday, October twenty-first, 1926, at Irving M. Lesser’s Great Neck Playhouse, Great Neck, Long Island, the Charles Frohman Company, Gilbert Miller, Managing Director, presented Holbrook Blinn in THE PLAY’S THE THING by Ferenc Molnar, for the first time on any stage in any language.

one of three equal parts of a divisible whole

From this reading The play was presented for the first time in New York City under the same auspices at Henry Miller’s Theatre on Wednesday, November the third, 1926.

the fifth day of the week; the fourth working day

From this reading Manufactured in the United States of America _On Thursday, October twenty-first, 1926, at Irving M. Lesser’s Great Neck Playhouse, Great Neck, Long Island, the Charles Frohman Company, Gilbert Miller, Managing Director, presented Holbrook Blinn in THE PLAY’S THE THING by Ferenc Molnar, for the first time on any stage in any language.

an instance or single occasion for some event

From this reading Manufactured in the United States of America _On Thursday, October twenty-first, 1926, at Irving M. Lesser’s Great Neck Playhouse, Great Neck, Long Island, the Charles Frohman Company, Gilbert Miller, Managing Director, presented Holbrook Blinn in THE PLAY’S THE THING by Ferenc Molnar, for the first time on any stage in any language.

used before the base form of a verb to make the infinitive

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coming next after the twentieth in position

From this reading Manufactured in the United States of America _On Thursday, October twenty-first, 1926, at Irving M. Lesser’s Great Neck Playhouse, Great Neck, Long Island, the Charles Frohman Company, Gilbert Miller, Managing Director, presented Holbrook Blinn in THE PLAY’S THE THING by Ferenc Molnar, for the first time on any stage in any language.

below or beneath something; less than

From this reading The play was presented for the first time in New York City under the same auspices at Henry Miller’s Theatre on Wednesday, November the third, 1926.

characterized by unity; being or joined into a single entity

From this reading Manufactured in the United States of America _On Thursday, October twenty-first, 1926, at Irving M. Lesser’s Great Neck Playhouse, Great Neck, Long Island, the Charles Frohman Company, Gilbert Miller, Managing Director, presented Holbrook Blinn in THE PLAY’S THE THING by Ferenc Molnar, for the first time on any stage in any language.

the past form of “be” used with I, he, she, it, or a singular noun

From this reading The play was presented for the first time in New York City under the same auspices at Henry Miller’s Theatre on Wednesday, November the third, 1926.

the fourth day of the week; the third working day

From this reading The play was presented for the first time in New York City under the same auspices at Henry Miller’s Theatre on Wednesday, November the third, 1926.

not having, not using, or not accompanied by

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English writer known for his humorous novels and stories (1881-1975)

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set down in writing in any of various ways

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the English royal house (a branch of the Plantagenet line) that reigned from 1461 to 1485; its emblem was a white rose

From this reading The play was presented for the first time in New York City under the same auspices at Henry Miller’s Theatre on Wednesday, November the third, 1926.