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Word: pizened (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1940
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...younger days Editor Sullens sometimes used his fists. Now he is 62 and for a decade he has stuck to pen pizen, made loquacious Mississippi Governor Paul Burney Johnson holler that he come out and fight. Paul Johnson has been barbecued and fricasseed in sometimes as many as six News editorials a day for the last nine years...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Pizen Slinger | 5/13/1940 | See Source »

Editor Sullens, half owner of the News, not only writes a front-page column (The Low Down on the Higher Ups) and three columns of editorial pizen, but until recent years he insisted on covering the Legislature himself. One evening last week a sizzling session of the Legislature-which has long frustrated the Governor-ended in an uproar. But Paul Johnson had had enough of words. Next night, in the crowded lobby of one of Jackson's political centres, the Walthall Hotel, Governor Johnson rushed upon Sullens, as the editor and his pretty young wife of a year crossed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Pizen Slinger | 5/13/1940 | See Source »

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