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Word: campstool (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Usage:

...Editor's Drawer" of Harper's Monthly, ran Harper's Weekly until Colonel George Harvey crowded him out. He set a whole generation's style of tame, facile humor, in which the cheerful shades of the great pseudophilosophized and gagged politely (sample: Wellington pulls a campstool from under Napoleon). His House Boat on the Styx became a best-seller and was credited with having relieved the U.S. reading public of its fear of hell...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Period Wit | 4/14/1941 | See Source »

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