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Word: mumblers (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Outraged Senator Henry Fountain Ashurst, self-styled "peripatetic bifurcated volcano of language," wrote to Secretary of the Interior Ickes: "The press quotes you as saying Senator Vandenberg is the Senate's greatest mumbler of long words. Why did you do that to me? What have I done to you? You know very well that I am a greater mumbler of long words than Arthur Vandenberg...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Jan. 1, 1940 | 1/1/1940 | See Source »

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