tosspot

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Trick Topper sequences: water in a shower bath bouncing off Miss Bennett's invisible figure; sheep dogs hurtling through the air; Roland Young, superb as a tosspot, reeling across the floor seemingly unsupported.

From Time Magazine Archive

Years later, in Brussels, when his teacher, the late great violinist and tosspot Eugene Ysa�e, told William he had special aptitude for the viola, he switched to it for life.

From Time Magazine Archive

Sad-eyed, lanky Artist Utrillo got a tosspot reputation in his youth, produced, nevertheless, many serious and hauntingly gifted paintings, and for at least ten years has been sober as a church.

From Time Magazine Archive

Best performance by an actor: Frank Fay, as the gentle, rabbit-fancying tosspot in Harvey.

From Time Magazine Archive

How? soul of a pickle-herring, body of a spagirical tosspot, doublet of motley, and mantle of pilgrim, how art thou transmuted!

From Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Vol. 12, No. 32, November, 1873 by Various