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Word: tomahto (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...hand and a prayerbook in the other. Young Bradford is the kind of Harvard graduate who still sculls on the Charles twice a week, and repairs to a Maine cottage every summer with his blueblood wife and four children. But he also knows when to call a tomahto a tomayto, and he speaks with some of the oratorical grandeur of John L. Lewis; with the same effective trick of ranging from a whisper to a sudden roar. In a swift series of 500 campaign speeches, young Bob Bradford last week finished strong even in some stout Irish precincts, where...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MASSACHUSETTS: Hot Blueblood | 7/24/1944 | See Source »

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