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Word: pinochio (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...middle, can with a sneeze inspire both terror and laughter. J. Mortimer Foulfellow, who is a hairbrushed and Oxford-accented Big Bad. Fox, is not only a contemptible villain, but a social satire of no mean acidity. It may be a twentieth-century, streamlined job--this "Pinochio"--but the old familiar tale is robbed of none of its genial moralizing and pathetic humor...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Moviegoer | 3/22/1940 | See Source »

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