Word: polysyllabicism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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To the roster of hardy booklovers who could never quite untangle its polysyllabic characters distinctly enough to muddle through War and Peace, a distinguished new name was added. The bored nonreader: Author Leo Tolstoy himself. In Chicago, on the eve of her 70th birthday, the great Russian novelist's...
Crosby, complete with his Hollywood toupee, was as pleasantly relaxed and as glibly polysyllabic on TV as he is on radio and in the movies. He traded familiar insults with Bob Hope; exchanged small talk with Guest Dorothy Lamour; moaned in true TV-Comic fashion whenever the studio audience seemed...
Congress' immediate reaction to Harry Truman's seizure of the steel mills was a volley of polysyllabic denunciation: "usurpation . . . socialization . . . intemperate . . . dangerous implications . . ." New Hampshire's Republican Styles Bridges demanded a Judiciary Committee inquiry. South Carolina's Democrat Burnet Maybank called a halt to consideration of...
But Beachcomber John Russell and his mangy crew reckon without the courage of Mailman Jerome Courtland, the awshucks hero who plunges under water to wrestle alligators hand-to-jaw when the safety of Heroine Terry Moore is at stake. And they fail to figure on the cunning of Dude Robert...
Architecturally speaking, Frank Lloyd Wright and John Ruskin are as uneasy a pair as a modern canvas roof supported by a Victorian marble arch. Yet Osbert Lancaster, a onetime editor of Britain's Architectural Review, thinks that Wright's Modern Functionalism and Ruskin's Gothic Revival movement...