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Word: whitmanic (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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...vulgarity of a man who kisses his wife too loudly, a man who drops his "h"'s and speaks with the accent of a true-blue Cockney. He has the reverence for learning of a man whose own education has been rudimentary, and he gleefully refers to Ibsen, Walt Whitman and Kipling with would be casualty. Unashamedly unfaithful to his wife, he has no qualms about attempting to seduce the dashing Polish aviatrix who has dropped into his greenhouse, and into his "evergreen heart...

Author: By Ashwini Sukthankar, | Title: Witty, Elegant Misalliance | 1/30/1992 | See Source »

...Walt Whitman, Camden...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Other America | 1/20/1992 | See Source »

...these nine square miles than anywhere else in the world. This was the home of the Victor talking machine, Campbell's soup and the Esterbrook pen. In the cavernous shipyards, 35,000 men once toiled, hammering out eight vessels at a time. Bard of it all was Walt Whitman, whose spirit trembled at the call of an industrial giant that thrived on the energy, poetry and power of machines. Whitman loved the noise of Camden, and his poems sang the glorious, churning, clangorous, whirlwind mess...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Other America | 1/20/1992 | See Source »

...Walt Whitman...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Hey, Let's Do A Few Lines! | 12/16/1991 | See Source »

...emphasis is not getting a face-lift when you need it, but getting one before you need it." Lately Novack has immersed himself in a hot new field: implanting silicone in men in search of chiseled pectorals, firm buttocks, bulging calves and strong chins. One wonders what Walt Whitman would have had to say about that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Pursuit of Perfection | 11/18/1991 | See Source »

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