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Word: mindedness (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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He scampered up a ladder to stare into a car. He climbed up on the tailgate of Melvin Soundreal's truck. He ran his hands through Soundreal's golden wheat but refused to stand in it for photographers, saying with authority: "That's bad farm practice." Experts...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FOOD: Butch Goes West | 5/6/1946 | See Source »

Anything for a Laugh. Somehow, between trips to speaks, gag-minded Norman Anthony made humor-magazine history. In 1922 he became editor of Judge. Within a year he lifted its sagging circulation from 30,000 to 100,000 by substituting cartoons for most of its heavy-footed text. The old...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Them Were the Days | 5/6/1946 | See Source »

"That Foul-Minded Public"

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Apr. 29, 1946 | 4/29/1946 | See Source »

It is your attitude that is doing so much to prevent people from realizing that jazz has real musical value. You want to think that hot jazz fans are immoral alcoholics, taking those reefers out of their mouths just long enough to take another slug of gin. It makes a...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Apr. 29, 1946 | 4/29/1946 | See Source »

A Wit's Progress. The sly dog who wrote this smooth doggerel says of himself: "I live a hideous life, and very often shave after lunch. I have four children and one wife. The fourth (a manchild) is extraordinarily handsome and good. All the other children are female and...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: Big Ben Strikes | 4/29/1946 | See Source »

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