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Word: debbil (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Those poor souls whose work-a-day lives are punctuated by the pipe-dream of a home in Pennsylvania's Bucks County are due for a rude awakening. Long fabled as the city dweller's Valhalla, a land inhabited by glittering artistic folk and their swimming pools, ol debbil Bucks County squirms evilly under the pen of master funnyman S. J. Perelman. In this newest offering, Mr. Perelman has created a sometimes hilarious expose of a plague spot overgrown with Japanese beetles and a gigantic land crab often called "the rustic...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Bookshelf | 9/27/1947 | See Source »

What will also never cease to amaze me is that the gentlement in New didn't gobble up such a golden opportunity. Blame it on "dat ole debbil Commercialism...

Author: By Eugene Benyas, | Title: SWING | 4/5/1943 | See Source »

...little consolation the men of Harvard will have from this affair is that Duke broadcasts from the Hurricane nearly every night at 10:45. WNAC, which should be carrying it, does not, only WOR, 700 kilocycles. "Dat ole debbil, he knows...

Author: By Eugene Benyas, | Title: SWING | 4/5/1943 | See Source »

Separated. Tallulah Bankhead, 38, currently touring the South in The Little Foxes; and Actor John Emery, 36; after four years of a marriage that was the first for both. Gloomed Actress Bankhead: "We put the blame on that 'old debbil' career...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Mar. 17, 1941 | 3/17/1941 | See Source »

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