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Word: thereness (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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As there is no limit to the ailments for which Dr. Jarvis offers the honey-vinegar panacea, so there is no limit to starry-eyed consumers' demand: more than 245,000 copies of Folk Medicine had been sold by last week, and countless readers had written testimonials to Dr...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Bestseller Revisited, Dec. 28, 1959 | 12/28/1959 | See Source »

A sentence from one of Miller's most mailable literary essays is typical: "Joyce, the mad baboon, herein gives the works to the patient antlike industry of man which has accumulated about him like an iron ring of dead learning." In a collection of aphorisms, the reader learns that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Miller Expurgated | 12/28/1959 | See Source »

Goldilocks the Victim. But even the present volume has its moments. With great glee, Miller lampoons the shock of the American tourist upon first encountering a Paris pissoir, adding: "I do not find it so strange that America placed a urinal in the center of the Paris exhibit at Chicago...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Miller Expurgated | 12/28/1959 | See Source »

And Not Abominable. In Raleigh, N.C., News and Observer Columnist Charles Craven discussed a city recreation department snowman contest, said there would be "two divisions-one for white children and one for colored," but "the snow men in both divisions will be white!"

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Dec. 28, 1959 | 12/28/1959 | See Source »

Fired? In Salt Lake City, Mayor Adiel F. Stewart abruptly halted a flowery speech observing the retirement of Fire Chief J. K. Piercey when the chief nudged him, said: "There's some mistake. I'm not retiring."

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Dec. 28, 1959 | 12/28/1959 | See Source »

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