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Word: wowser (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...affectionately reprint his own editorials and funny stories, who can, in the Southern journalist's equivalent of Arthur Kober, refer to a "floundered" submarine, speaks from the photographic heart of what his time and environment have made him, and is incapable of going wrong. Even such a wowser as: "Whatever else North Carolinians stand for or do not stand for, immorality by a man in the highest place in an insane asylum or even the suspicion of it brings indignation," is better than a mere laugh; it is, like the whole of the book, as genuine as a thumbprint...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Thumbprint of the South | 12/25/1939 | See Source »

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