Word: serio
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...from the Greek island of Levkas, had begun life in the U.S. as a brush-flipper and rag-flapper in a Kansas City shoeshine parlor operated by one George Giokaris. He left Kansas City in 1916. In the early 19205 he got a job with the FBI-then a serio-comic collection of political apple polishers commanded by that hoary old Private Eye, William J. Burns...
...this amusing, serio-comic study, Author Hodgins, one of FORTUNE'S editors, puts the Blandings over just about all the jumps that confront the well-set businessman and his wife in their expensive search for the simple life...
...face of things, U.S. intervention had been a serio-comic failure. But it was not a fiasco. The U.S. principle was on record, in a specific case: that provisional governments have only provisional power until their people have a chance to speak...
...Ulysses vibrated like cold made-lightning between the cathodes of the most fluoroscopic symbolism and the most granitic naturalism. In Finnegans Wake naturalism and the artist himself all but disappear; the book is a shimmering death-dance of chameleon-like symbols; an attempt at nothing less than a complete serio-comic history of human consciousness-in Levin's neat phrase, a "doomsday book," culminating in a Phoenician paradox of dissolution and resurrection...
...both the right to vote and proof positive of objective, truth. The Crimson scribbler who maligned Mr. Davis in an editor's note attached to Mr. Davis letter must be banished to work for which he is better fitted. He has failed to recognize a master of the serio-jocose. The Crimson will certainly not retain in his present dangerous capacity a man who fails to recognize the new-Swift our Mr. Davis. Marion J. Levy...