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Word: frabjous (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...most frabjous funnyman in town is Claes Oldenburg, a prematurely balding troll of 38. Among his what's-its on display at the Sidney Janis Gallery are: 1) a 6-ft.-long stuffed-and-sewn canvas loaf of raisin bread, with six detachable slices and 42 removable raisins; 2) a 12-ft.-tall, droopy white canvas "ghost fan" (its mate, a 12-ft.-tall black fan, wilts in mid-air beneath the space capsules at the top of Expo 67's U.S. pavilion); 3) platters bearing real Jell-O and real marzipan molds of the artist...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Exhibits: The Pranksters | 5/26/1967 | See Source »

...Browns or Orioles, they were still the worst team in baseball, but Baltimore greeted them like champs. ON TO THE PENNANT, whooped the normally staid Morning Sun, and a monumental welcoming parade tied up traffic for hours. Baltimore Poet Laureate Ogden Nash dashed off a ditty to celebrate the frabjous...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Baseball: Old Potato Face | 9/11/1964 | See Source »

...frabjous day! Callooh! Callay...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: One Golden Afternoon | 7/6/1962 | See Source »

...days have ever proved as richly, fortuitously frabjous as the beamish afternoon of July 4, 1862. It was a century ago this week, between lunch and brillig, that the Rev. Charles Lutwidge Dodgson and a friend rowed three small sisters up the River Isis and came upon Wonderland...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: One Golden Afternoon | 7/6/1962 | See Source »

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