TIME coinages?; Wuss (1977)
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_TIME_ COINAGES?
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#3979 (24 Jan 2000 05:37) - Coinages (part four)(LONG!)
Time coined the word "newsmagazine," along with many other words that entered
the language--socialite, guesstimate, televangelist--and many words that did
not, including cinemactor and nudancer and sexational. (RHHDAS has
guesstimate from 1934, but with no Time citation--ed.)
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NEWSMAGAZINE
Miscellany
_(During the Past Week the Daily Press..._
(http://www.time.com/time/archive/preview/0,10987,727690,00.html)
Dec. 24, 1923
(During the Past Week the Daily Press Gave Extensive Publicity to the
Following Men and Women. Let Each Explain to You Why His Name Appeared in the
Headlines.) Mrs. Leonard Wood: "The New York Evening Journal, self-styled
'America's Greatest Evening Newspaper,' ignorantly announced that I had been
appointed a Vice Chairman of the Republican National ...
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(OED)
1890 Science 3 Jan. 11 The first number of a weekly *news magazine. 1953
Encounter Nov. 5/1 He shifted to the weekly news-magazine, Der Spiegel. 1992
Economist 31 Oct. 51/1 Old News is the output of the broadsheet newspapers, the
news magazines and the television networks' news shows.
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GUESSTIMATE
No early citation in TIME. See ADS-L archives.
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SOCIALITE (OED has this citation)
_Engaged. Almira G. Rockefeller, only..._
(http://www.time.com/time/archive/preview/0,10987,928438,00.html)
Dec. 31, 1928
Engaged. Almira G. Rockefeller, only daughter of the late William G.
Rockefeller, grandniece of John Davison Rockefeller, recent debutante, of Manhattan
& Greenwich, Conn.; to M. Roy Jackson, able huntsman, widower, father of two
married daughters, of Rye, N. Y. Engaged. Melville E. Stone II, grandson of .
Associated Press General Manager Melville E. Stone, ...
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TELEVANGELIST (OED has 5 March 1973 from TIME, but only this shows up?)
Religion
_Retailing Optimism_
(http://www.time.com/time/archive/preview/0,10987,917133,00.html)
Feb. 24, 1975
The cameras are in place. So is the Pan-Cake makeup. Cue the lights. Ready
on the fountains. Action. "This is the day God has made," beams the Rev.
Robert Schuller as he bounds toward the pulpit. A glass panel separating the
walk-in sanctuary from the drive-in sanctuary lumbers open. As a dozen fountains
spurt skyward, ..
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WUSS
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We have 1976, so I don't know if 1977 helps. THE ITHACAN, from Ithaca
College, supposedly is digitized from January 1931, but a check of the word "slang"
shows an entry in January 1927.
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24 February 1977, THE ITHACAN, pg. 13, col. 1:
A group of athletically-inclined might polish off a half in thirty minutes,
while a wuss convention will take all night to dent a quarter..
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