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Word: pickwickian (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Stanley Jay is drolly Pickwickian as the head-borough Verges. But Ralph Drischell has extracted little of the meat from the self-inflated, malapropistic Dogberry. Robert Evans fails to convey the villainy of Don John, who openly proclaims his evilness several times to the audience; he is nothing worse than childishly petulant. John Brockington's friar also needs more work...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Much Ado About Nothing | 6/29/1959 | See Source »

...ideal diplomat. She has trouble keeping separate the many things she is and dimming her own radiance enough to see the prudent course. Yet she is certainly among the better noncareer diplomats we've had, a woman of the world, who in no sense but the Pickwickian is an "ugly American...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Judgments & Prophecies: THE LESSON SEEMS PLAIN | 5/11/1959 | See Source »

Dreams & Danger. Most of the time, President Russell-a gentle man of Pickwickian build and conservative bent-has tried to walk straight down the middle of 120th Street. Last week, as he prepared to step down in favor of his like-minded former student, T.C.'s Dean Hollis Caswell, 52, President Russell could claim with justice that, at their best, T.C.'s doctrines have injected new humanity and freedom into the schools. But at their worst (as critics point out), they could lead to a wholesale intellectual retreat into a never-never land of growth without goal...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Change on 120th Street | 5/3/1954 | See Source »

...trade practice for anyone except A. N. Marquis Co. to use the title without permission. Last week, as the biennial new edition was readied for sale, Who's Who's owner and editor Wheeler Sammons, 64, took formal steps to make the book an institution. Sammons, a Pickwickian-looking arbiter of fame who considers listing in his book to be roughly the American equivalent of making the Queen's Honors List, set up a nonprofit foundation with a board of trustees to protect Who's Who's integrity and put its profits into biographical research...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Who's Who's Who | 3/8/1954 | See Source »

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