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Word: samsonized (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Calling Lavatories John," and to the "Society for the Prevention of Calling Sleeping Car Porters George." If such societies exist in actuality, I would greatly appreciate it if you could tell me where I might get in touch with persons who would know more about the societies. ELMER SAMSON Princeton...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Feb. 19, 1940 | 2/19/1940 | See Source »

...miniature Grand Hotel." But this time the improbable goings-on concern the paternal boss and clerks in the Budapest leather-goods shop of Matuschek (rhymes with hat-to-check) & Co. As the plot has as many complications as characters, much of the fun comes in watching Scripter Samson Raphaelson neatly tangle and untangle them without tying himself in a hard knot...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Feb. 5, 1940 | 2/5/1940 | See Source »

...Corsair, flown by Captain Edward Samson Alcock, younger brother of the Empire's late famed pioneer Transatlantic Flier Captain Sir John Alcock, was bound last March from Kisumu to Cairo, on the South Africa-to-England run. Young Alcock was rocketing along over the jungle at 200 m.p.h. when he found he was running out of fuel. Instead of flying over Juba, he was 150 miles to the southeast. The Dangu River, swarming with hippos, crocodiles and water snakes, hedged by high and slippery banks, yawned beneath...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Corsair in Congo | 1/29/1940 | See Source »

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