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Word: fizzician (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...favor of the more grandiose store.) U.S. undertakers have fought and won a hundred-years' war to sweeten the sound of their macabre occupation. Today, after relatives have consulted with an obsequial engineer, the so-called patient (who may in his lifetime have been a realtor, soda-counter fizzician or canine-control officer) is first preserved by an expert sanitarian, then garbed in a slumber-robe, then laid in his slumber-cot, and finally whisked off in a casket-coach to his appointed burial-abbey...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Alphabet Soup | 8/27/1945 | See Source »

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