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Word: clinger (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...grieves me to report that not only is the heretofore exuberant Mr. Clark imitable, but also that with a few exceptions he isn't worth imitating. For an old Clark afficionado those are hard words to utter, but there they are. The show, as it stands, is a clinger...

Author: By Burton S. Glinn., | Title: The Playgoer | 10/16/1948 | See Source »

Junk. In Middletown, Ind., when Carl Clinger's handsome new auto stalled on a railroad track, he got his old car, used it to push the new one off the track, got stuck halfway across, jumped just in time to watch a train smack both of them into smithereens. In Los Angeles, when the Homer Cliffords' auto stalled on a railroad track, confident Mrs. Clifford kept her seat while her husband tried to push the car off the track before a train arrived. She survived the impact...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Dec. 7, 1942 | 12/7/1942 | See Source »

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