Word: bestest
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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While Cairo's foreign press corps worriedly met to plan some defense against expulsion, Correspondent Stevenson flew to Rome and, in the black-and-white Japanese kimono that he wears while writing, pounded out the reply to his office's urgent cable to FILE STORY SOONEST MOSTEST BESTEST. Star readers soon learned in glittering detail that Stevenson first offended the Egyptians by trying twice in the same day-and getting arrested both times-to get an interview with Ex-Premier Mohammed Naguib, under house arrest 15 miles out of Cairo. What riled the Egyptians even more...
Princes from toads may appear, cows may jump over the moon, and Texans may decide that the Lone Star State is not the biggest and bestest after all-report any of these things in your excellent publication and I'll not hesitate to believe. But when you guys term the comic strip Dick Tracy a form of "art" [Sept. 21], then you've gone too far. Your statement is not only the most; it's too much...