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Word: peglerian (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...last couple of years, Pegler has largely confined himself to innocuous columns about George Spelvin, a Peglerian prototype of an average American: grumpy, antisocial and suspicious as a kulak. George still has a small, eccentric following, and chances are that he (and Pegler) will be kept by some papers even though he has been dropped by Hearst. But the demand is likely to be small. By week's end, the Hearst papers had received only a handful of letters and a few phone calls protesting the loss of their onetime titan...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: The Angry Old Man | 8/24/1962 | See Source »

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