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Word: ers (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Madrid and Sekretri tu dhe lat Aga Ron; in London. Follick's first bill lost by just three votes. During the debate, a Tory M.P. wondered if Follick proposed to spell water u-o-o-r-t-e-r, pointed out that "some Cockneys say wa'er and Americans say watter, but how do the Scotsmen say it?" Then Glasgow's John Rankin closed that part of the discussion, said: "In Scawtland, we prrronounce it whuskey...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Dec. 22, 1958 | 12/22/1958 | See Source »

...finally, on current critical ballyhoo about the South as a source of symbol and meaning: "Tommyrot. You can say Faulkner, but not really. The only really regional writer in the South was the creator of Br'er Rabbit...

Author: By John D. Leonard, | Title: Cocktails With Truman Capote | 12/9/1958 | See Source »

...Er ... yes, well, the meeting's inside...

Author: By Richard E. Ashcraft, | Title: Go, Go, Go Club | 12/2/1958 | See Source »

Graham was a shade too fatherly, Sheilah implies, to be fully satisfactory as a mate, but he did replace the U-brush with some H's and cured her of saying "Oo-er! Wot an 'at!" After that it was onward and upward-showgirl with C. B. Cochran and Noel Coward, playgirl with palace guardsmen and aristocrats. Trouble was that along with a pseudonym, the ex-Lily had concocted a sort of pseudo-family tree and she never knew when someone was going to cry, "Timber!" In 1933, she decided the U.S. was the best place...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Honi Soit Qui Malibu | 11/24/1958 | See Source »

...rounD) moon,how do you(rouNd er than roUnd)float; who lly &(rOunder than) go :ldenly( Round...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: the latest from e. e. cummings | 10/13/1958 | See Source »

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