Word: fancier
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Seldom had a loyal radio audience floundered in such a quandary. To add to the confusion: on the West Coast, Blue continued to carry Red Ryder, Mutual continued to carry the Lone Ranger. Said one horse-opera fancier: "All we need now is a gun fight between those...
...mystery was finally solved, however, when a lady, who did not divulge her name, but characterized herself as a "cat-fancier," phoned to inform the informers that the animals are rare, but not valuable. "They are half-breeds," she explained, "like mules...
...Phrase-fancier Franklin Roosevelt had picked up a new one: sixth column. He used it at a press conference to denounce gossips and defeatists who spread rumors planted by enemy agents...
This week the Plain Dealer received far fancier compliments than Churchill's. To celebrate its looth birthday appeared a 402-page history of the Plain Dealer (Knopf; $4), by its longtime chief editorial writer, 65-year-old Archer H. Shaw. A labored labor of love, it added valuable history of one of the most famed U.S. newspapers. Like most such histories-and like the Plain Dealer itself-Author Shaw's book is dullest in the most recent decades...
Saving copper is thus still the only answer to the copper crisis. Some of the fancier notions of this sort...