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Word: venetia (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Alleycats bristle with awe. Nobody is cozier with words: for him, Winchell rhymes with provincial, suburban with Deanna Durbin, Nina with schizophrenia. Jehovah with Casanova, Lassie with democrassy, to the bottom I with hippopotami, a fine finnan haddie with my heart belongs to daddy, and Venetia who loved to chat so is still drinkin' in her stinkin' pink palazzo. There are images and characters in Porter that stick in the mind because of their authentic, ginny bitterness: the lovers whose cars are seen in front of too many bars, the males whom men forget and only tailors remember...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: The Great Ear-Wiggler | 9/13/1954 | See Source »

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