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Word: pook (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Theosophical Society has unloosed a "tidal bore of flumduddery and jiggery-pook on the superstitious suburbs of the West." This is an unwarranted attack on an honorable institution, considerably older and more stable than TIME...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jan. 20, 1958 | 1/20/1958 | See Source »

...Strand that first published Rudyard Kipling's Puck of Pook's Hill, H. G. Wells's The First Men in the Moon and W. W. Jacobs' "Night Watchman" stories; it gave a head start to such other up-&-coming writers and illustrators as P. G. Wodehouse, Agatha Christie, A. E. W. Mason, George Bernard Shaw, Max Beerbohm, Osbert Lancaster and Sidney Paget...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Death of a Tradition | 1/2/1950 | See Source »

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