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Word: dourest (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...bitten songs of the anthracite regions, were published. Author of the collection,† George Korson, a former newspaper reporter of Pottsville, Pa., had been hunting and writing down mine songs for some 14 years. Bristling with disasters, explosions, strikes and brawls, Korson's book makes one of the dourest proletarian records ever to come out of the drabbest of U. S. industrial areas...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Mine Minstrels | 11/14/1938 | See Source »

Newspaper editors are not as a rule fond of pressagents, but Dexter Fellows is a pressagent extraordinary, and he ballyhoos the most widely beloved of U. S. businesses. On the annual news that the circus is coming to town, even the dourest city editor is moved to let his newshawks soar far from earthy fact into the empyrean of their fancy-especially when the harbinger of this perennial Noah's Ark is such a downy dove as Dexter Fellows. In the 43 years Harbinger Fellows has been pressagenting for the circus, he has never failed to get favorable free...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Sesquipedalian | 6/15/1936 | See Source »

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