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Word: mayhemic (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1925-1925
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VARIETY?R chard Connell?Mint on, Balch ($2.00). In the columns of every U. S. newspaper, occupying the odd inch at the root of a divorce, or a box, maybe, between finance and mayhem, are items about nameless people who have become news because some extravagance in the comedy of their lives has made them pathetic or some vagary in their afflictions has made them funny. Richard Connell, with one snip of the shears, two strokes of the fountain pen, can transform such items into tales that delight the readers of The Saturday Evening Post, and may afterwards be collected...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Saga in Sand | 5/18/1925 | See Source »

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