Search us!

Search The Word Detective and our family of websites:

This is the easiest way to find a column on a particular word or phrase.

To search for a specific phrase, put it between quotation marks.

 

 

 

 

 
« Only a slight exaggeration.  
Home
  Hell bent for leather »

$2.95 a month -- wotta deal!

From Life magazine in 1965, a full-page ad for a vocabulary enrichment program my father created for Grolier (click for larger version)
morrisvocab

Share this article!
  • Reddit
  • Digg
  • del.icio.us
  • StumbleUpon
  • Facebook
  • LinkedIn
  • TailRank
  • Technorati
  • Google
October 22nd, 2009 | Category: sideblog

 

Leave a Reply

 

 

 

You can use these HTML tags

<a href="" title=""> <abbr title=""> <acronym title=""> <b> <blockquote cite=""> <cite> <code> <del datetime=""> <em> <i> <q cite=""> <strike> <strong>

« Only a slight exaggeration.  
Home
  Hell bent for leather »
Please support
The Word Detective
(and see each issue
much sooner)

unclesamsmaller
by Subscribing.

If you are already a subscriber, you can find Subscriber Content here.