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Word: polysyllabist (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week Congressional Record readers guffawed at the latest maneuver of the Prescott, Ariz. polysyllabist-an insertion of no less than 19½ pages (40,000-plus words) of Ashurstiana, the nearest thing there is to a complete collected edition of the famed, lush, Ashurstian magniloquence. Said debonair Henry happily...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CONGRESS: Silver-Tongued Sunbeam | 8/7/1939 | See Source »

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