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  • n  a farm dumpcart for carrying dung; carts of this type were used to carry prisoners to the guillotine during the French Revolution

  • MacBird! by Barbara Garson has been awaited with all the fierce anticipatory noises surrounding a tumbrel arriving at the guillotine.
  • She signs autographs as if on her own death warrant, views mobs of admirers from the back seat of her white Citron like some tumbrel-borne Marie Antoinette, hysterically adopts a .
  • It may have seemed droll to cast Judy Holliday as a Peace Corps clown, a lady Jonah anxious to do good out where the East begins, but this musical is as funny as a tumbrel.

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