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Word: nightmarish (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1927-1927
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...madman was a clergyman and Conductor, when you receive a fare haunted him all the way to Boston from the moment when "the train started and the car-wheels began their 'clack-clack-clack-clack-clack' ". . . The funeral was a nightmarish medley of blue and buff trip slips for three-cent fares to Heaven...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Century | 6/13/1927 | See Source »

...face full of Jewish flesh and ingenuity would have beamed forth over a nightmarish mechanical design-the canary cries, watering the sensitive plant, which blushes, warming the matchhead, which ignites, inspiring the cat to commit suicide. In this case a high-grade bellboy might have been able to name the handsome patron: Cartoonist Rube Goldberg. The desk clerk could probably have named Mr. Goldberg's companions: Cartoonists Clare Briggs and Bud Fisher. . . . The first formal and annual dinner of the Cartoonists of America was a large event in a circle where events are not numerous...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Wows | 3/28/1927 | See Source »

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