Word: dialectitian
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...indifferent, and there is nothing quite like it on the U.S. air. Some 10,000,000 steady listeners send in an average 10,000 jokes (90% of them unusable) a week. Four or five are chosen and told on the program by red-haired Peter Donald, actor and dialectitian. The decibels of laughter from the studio audience are registered on a "laughmeter." After each joke the Senator and his colleagues tell one on the same subject (matrimony, money, courtship, etc.), try to outmeter the contestant. If he is not outmetered, he stands to win from...
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