Word: takin
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...enriched flour, sun bathing, brief swimsuits and many of the foods known today to be the richest in vitamins. Macfadden hoped to usher in a second Reformation, but, as he rightly remarked of the leader of the first one: "[Luther] sat around doin' too much thinkin' and takin' cracks at the Pope. That's not the way to make a success these days...
...takin' pokes at pansies was unlawful...
...manners & morals, from the speakeasy era to the atomic age. It also sketches the line U.S. humor has taken, from Peter Arno's old-maidish "whoops" girls of the '20s ("I'm gonna show me profile, dearie!" "Profile? Whoops! I ain't even takin' me coat off"), close kin to the charwomen of London's Punch, to the ghoulish gaiety of Charles Addams. Many a New Yorkerism (e.g., Cartoonist Carl Rose's "I say it's spinach, and I say the hell with it") has become a part of the language...