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Word: weollcott (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1953-1953
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...city for a brief inspection tour. "It's 3 greatly overgrown village. It has phases unworthy of a great city-trucks mixed with taxicabs and private conveyances, the whole thing a melee, and then the garbage set out on the streets. Very village-like." Wright added that Alexander Weollcott had once defined New Yorkers as "Midwesterners with ulcers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CITIES: Very Village-Like | 5/25/1953 | See Source »

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