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

From Time Magazine Archive

As a tosspot, as a trencherman he was Gargantuan.

From Time Magazine Archive

Critic Swaffer, tall, stringy, in his 50's, convivial, well-to-do, was once a famed young tosspot.

From Time Magazine Archive

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

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