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Word: grinches (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1957-1957
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...they will find no mention of hellfire or corruption. About the only danger to a child's complacency is the threatened loss of Christmas-an anxiety that, surprisingly, provides the plot for three of the season's best children's writers: Dr. Seuss in How the Grinch Stole Christmas ("The Grinch hated Christmas!. . . No one quite knows the reason"), Ogden Nash in The Christmas That Almost Wasn't ("This was the gruesome, grimsome guard/That ruled the land under Evilard/And decided to outlaw Christmas"), and Phyllis McGinley in The Year without a Santa Claus ("Headlines screamed/Wires went...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Grinch & Co. | 12/23/1957 | See Source »

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