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Word: swamp (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Jumbos have only one outdoor practice this season, because of the fine New England spring, and because their diamond is a filled swamp...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Repetto Will Pitch for Nine Against Tufts | 4/17/1956 | See Source »

...California is very sensitive and has a right to be. Anybody who has ever seen Philadelphia knows that it is no laughing matter. Florida is a few fauna and flora entirely hidden by New York salesmen; when the alligators spot the first visitors arriving they run off in the swamp and hide. If you josh Oklahoma a little, they bring up that football team...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TEXAS: What's So Funny? | 4/16/1956 | See Source »

...Erich Varnoff. Exiled by a "foreign power," Varnoff decides to rule the world. As he puts it, "I will perfect my own race of people." Varnoff sets up a monster-making establishment in an old dilapidated mansion, the old Willows Place, which is hidden deep in an old secluded swamp. "This swamp," one of the characters later reveals, "is a monument to death...

Author: By Jonathan Beecher, | Title: Monsters | 3/1/1956 | See Source »

...kind of monster-maker. He makes his supermen with "the atom elements." His story also seems influenced by the development of Psychotherapy ("Here in this forsaken jungle hell I have come to prove myself alright."), though it is not known whether there was an analyst for this swamp...

Author: By Jonathan Beecher, | Title: Monsters | 3/1/1956 | See Source »

Another innovation, octopi and reptiles replace the old paper mache monsters of former horror movies. Varnoff's swamp is inhabited by a large collection of crocodiles and poisonous snakes. Unimpressed by these horrors, one skeptical moviegoer commented, "See ya later alligator...

Author: By Jonathan Beecher, | Title: Monsters | 3/1/1956 | See Source »

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