Word: words
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...married himself to the word 'tycoon...
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...note the following in the Chicago Herald and Examiner: CRITIC FALLS VICTIM OF WORD ORGY...
...have just been struck in the eye by a fearful word in the dramatic column of my last week's copy of TIME, "the weekly news magazine," that counts among its duties that of teaching the dailies their manners. And I am wondering if drama critics are to become corrupted by the plays they are paid to see. This is a word that might be spoken on the stage in so frank and veristic a production as The Front Page, but uttered at a decent dinner table it would impel a Victorian butler to practice on the loose-lipped...
...word that shocked Critic Stevens was a Latin-derived synonym for stage-hackneyed Sex-a synonym seldom heard outside biology. TIME approved the word's scientific quality and doubts that the most prurient-minded of Victorian butlers would have suspected what was meant...