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

radio listener lends his ear to a loudmouthed, platitudinous, corn-cackling character who calls himself Senator Claghorn. The "Senator" is a broad burlesque of the worst in Southern statesmen. On the air for less than three months, he is already being mimicked by children at school, businessmen at luncheon clubs, drunks at bars. No one does the routine quite as well as the Senator himself: Fred Allen's announcer, Kenny Delmar...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Claghorn's the Name | 12/31/1945 | See Source »

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