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Word: fixits (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Supermania is the only word for their devotion to this irrepressible Citizen Fixit, who smacks death rays back into the cannon, restores toppling skyscrapers to their foundations, knits broken bridges together with his bare hands, and who has brought a new cry into the world: "It's a bird! It's a plane! It's-SUPERMAN...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Jul. 6, 1942 | 7/6/1942 | See Source »

...lacks entrails, it lacks sense of direction, it offers no weightier message than that Heaven Helps Those Who Help Themselves. Instead of the greasy, indignant, impoverished out-of-jointers who formerly served Odets as a kind of Nick-the-Greek chorus, Night Music offers a benevolent detective, half Mr. Fixit, half Dutch uncle, who chants to the lovers of the Land of Opportunity. And not one of Odets' three dozen characters cuts in with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: New Plays in Manhattan: Mar. 4, 1940 | 3/4/1940 | See Source »

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