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Word: munchausen (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...King" tells it, in a lively stylistic blend of Baron Munchausen and Dan Turner, Private Eye, the Harvard job was really an accident. He had come to Boston to knock over a Liggett drug store, but after casing the joint he vetoed...

Author: By David G. Braaten, | Title: Author - Thief Lists $100,000 Harvard Haul | 6/4/1949 | See Source »

Lord Frank Gannett, onetime U.S. Ambassador to Russia William Bullitt, Columnist Walter Winchell. For Winchell, Vishinsky reserved his choicest invective: "The new American Baron Munchausen, famous . . . for his utterly absurd lies...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Vishinsky Meets the Press | 10/6/1947 | See Source »

Kate Smith (Sun. 6:30 p.m., CBS), gives Baron Munchausen (Jack Pearl) an airing as guest star...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Program Preview, Dec. 9, 1946 | 12/9/1946 | See Source »

Next ripple in the advancing tide was the onetime castle of Baron Munchausen, legendary apostle of the apocryphal. Hard by, in storied Hameln, the tanks had to flatten a fifth of the turreted town before it yielded. Unharmed was the 17th-century house from which the Pied Piper beguiled Hameln's children to their...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GERMANY: Chaos -- and Comforts | 4/16/1945 | See Source »

Tragi-comic fantasy by the au thor of Liliom and The Guardsman. A modern Hungarian Munchausen makes himself the hero of every wild, romantic tale he has ever heard, but his own life is more bizarre than his fancies...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FICTION: Recent & Readable, Mar. 5, 1945 | 3/5/1945 | See Source »

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