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Word: rarebits (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...McCay was an artist in every sense of the word and his cartoons of "Little Nemo" and "Dreams of a Rarebit Fiend" that appeared in Sunday newspaper supplements were the joy and delight of the youngsters of that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jan. 10, 1938 | 1/10/1938 | See Source »

They got sick in great smoking contest, behind the bushes, or from eating the Welsh rarebit which the Tennessee Shad concocted of cheese and witch-hazel. They invented a Goldbergian "Sleep Prolonger" (alarm clock to window to heat register) which, produced in commercial quantities, made the night hideous by performing at any hour except the right one. They formed a Criminal Club, a Housebreakers' Union, presented in Chapel a solid mass of shaved pates. Dink Stover, later to win fame at Yale, carried his whole Latin class by signalling with a pair of mobile ears whenever The Roman, their...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: At Lawrenceville | 11/5/1934 | See Source »

...writer of the editorial "Welsh Rarebit" in yesterday's CRIMSON seems to be under the impression that the Celtic culture and languages are dead, for he says: "A purely academic and scholastic survival of dialects and traditions is worth little." I can not speak from personal experience as to the Gaelic of the Scottish Highlands but I do know that Welsh is very much alive. I know two proofs of this: first, there is a Welsh newspaper the "Baner ar Amseran Cymon" of which I have a copy and, second, the children talk Welsh. As long as the children talk...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Survival of Gaelic | 4/7/1931 | See Source »

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