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Word: misteres (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...sort of edged up aside him and, says I, 'Mister, will you have a few draps?' He blowed an awful sigh, and says he, 'This is a wicked and a perverse generation of vipers, young man.' [But] that shovel-shaped underlip of his jist fell outwards like the fallin door of a coal stove, and he upsot the gourd inside of his teeth. I seed the mark of the truck agoing down his throat jist like a snake travelin through a wet sausage gut. He smelt into the gourd a good long smell, turned...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Preachers, Varments, Planners | 2/10/1947 | See Source »

...Heaven" and "The Well-Digger's Daughter," the last of which enters its third week at the Exeter. Most of these pictures out-distance by far the much less attractive wares which the legitimate theater is offering currently, with the noteworthy exception of the wise and witty "Call Me Mister...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Moviegoer | 2/5/1947 | See Source »

They had surrendered not only rank, but swank. Like all West Point fourth-classmen, they answered to titles like "Mister Dumbjohn" and endured upper-classmen's humor. But as soldiers, most wore their ribbons. They were the gaudiest plebes in the Academy's history. On his grey dress coat, Cadet Clark sported pilot's wings, the Distinguished Flying Cross, the Air Medal with 13 clusters, and an ETO ribbon with six stars...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ARMY & NAVY: The Hard Way | 2/3/1947 | See Source »

Plymouth: Best of Spirit, John Loves Mary: Opera House: Blossom Time. San Carlo Opera; Copley: A Young Man's Fancy; Schubert: Call Me Mister: Colonial: All My Sons; Tributary: Arms of The Man Macbeth; Esquire: Best Years of Our Lives; Jordan: Schwalb, Primus, Anderson: Symphony: Peerce, Pinza, Holmes...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Harvard Ticket Agency | 1/13/1947 | See Source »

...Mister Merdeka." At the end of each speech he punches out, with clenched fists, three thunderous cheers: "Merdeka [Freedom]! Merdeka! Merdeka!" His followers roar the word, plaster it on billboards, use it as the Nazis used Heil Hitler in telephone greetings. Affectionately, they call their leader "Mister Merdeka...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INDONESIA: Ir. | 12/23/1946 | See Source »

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