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Word: gaga (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Despite his debunking Missouri skepticism, Twain let himself be thrilled, too. He went as gaga as a vacationing schoolmarm before the beauties of Versailles ("an exquisite dream"), the cathedral in Milan ("The princeliest creation that ever brain of man conceived") and the Acropolis by moonlight ("All the beauty in all the world combined could not rival it"). As if half-ashamed of such ecstatic outbursts, he lapsed into heavy-handed gags about "Mike" Angelo and the tomb of Lazarus ("I had rather live in it than in any house in the town"). Even in such jests Twain foreshadowed an emergent...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Travelers' Return | 6/16/1958 | See Source »

Baring his heart, the tenor sang, "Laga baba lagaga banuna." Moved, the soprano tenderly replied, "O gaga o gaga." Her expression of love reduced the tenor to turtledove coos: "Oc curru curru curru curru curru...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Gatta-Dammerung | 10/14/1957 | See Source »

...father-in-law. Old Mr. MacLeod, who was once adviser to the Boy Emperor (1909-12) and took a Chinese woman to wife, has gone Confucian in the saddest way. Mrs. MacLeod calls him "Baba" ("It is easier to say than Father") and he is also thoroughly gaga...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Mom v. Mao | 7/15/1957 | See Source »

David McDonald is a big (6 ft. 2 in. 220 Ibs.) man and true, who eats his buffalo liver raw and sometimes wonders whether he is a man or a moose. In the 23rd book of his long and musky career, saga-gaga Novelist Vardis Fisher (Testament of Man, seven volumes so far, five to come) surrounds David & Co. with tons of Indians-bucks, squaws, half-breeds-plus prairies full of buffalo meat, oceans of rum, and a plot made of walrus blubber. David is a deep thinker, but on somewhat specialized lines; he broods mostly on pemmican and squaws...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Of Moose & Men | 6/25/1956 | See Source »

...Powell's gaga saga has gathered an odd and diverting cast of characters who make their entrances and exits, as people do in life, with no particular design. In The Acceptance World he shuffles them in all their inconsequence into the Great Depression, or as the British prefer to call it, "The Slump." The early '30s have been both mourned and deplored, but never quite so coldly derided...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Corpse in the Garden | 2/20/1956 | See Source »

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