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Word: revelation (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Four beer-drinking Smith girls and their Yale and Princeton dates were booked for trespassing by Northampton police in the aftermath of a boisterous box-car revel last Sunday...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Straight-Laced Cops Crash Smith Box Car Beer Party | 4/17/1951 | See Source »

...Picasso. "Perhaps," says Viereck, "every 20 years, the eternal Babbitt dons a new name and a new mask." Old George Babbitt would speak smugly of "boosting and flag-waving and hating slackers and reds, and hating such longhair stuff as culture." Young Gaylord just as smugly pretends to revel in art and culture, thinks "nothing more wonderful than defying middle-class conventions." And his wife "can't stand those barbaric middle-class businessmen...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Father & Son | 7/10/1950 | See Source »

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