Word: mindhold
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...authors for numerous phrases and familiar quotations which have become 'household words.' " In 1937, when Editors Christopher Morley and Louella D. Everett put Bartlett's eleventh edition together, they went far beyond the founder's original scheme. They tried "to seize also some of the Mindhold Words . . . which the world hardly yet knows it has absorbed." Consequently, a large proportion of their "Familiar Quotations" were totally unfamiliar to most people, but their Bartlett was not only a useful reference book but a first-rate bit of reading...
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