"My God, if I weren't so well integrated, I'd be out of my mind!" —Philip K. Dick, "Fair Game"

Why is the four-piece band the most common configuration in rock and pop music?  It's because a guitar pick can hold four faces: a guitarist, a bassist, a drummer, and a frontman (pictured right).  From the cover of The Revolutionary Personality by Victor Wolfenstein.  

Ever begin a book and feel as though you arrived late, that it started without you?  This one's already open at the cover.  From Love and Death in the American Novel by Leslie A. Fiedler.

From Unknown, 1940.

From Harper's, 1958.

"Police raid uncovers devices of torture at city piano school."  From Toike Oilke, 1976.

From The Study, 1974.

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From Peace Institute's 1908 yearbook.  See How to Hoodoo Hack a Yearbook.

From Union College's 1973 yearbook.

From the Might and Magic (I) (II) Complete Book.

"Old" may not be a four-letter word, but its pseudoarchaic variant "olde" is.  However, there's yet an olde-worlde charm to quaint four-letter "olde."  Old Is Not a Four-Letter Word by Ann E. Gerike. 

Three guesses what this headline word means.  (Though, to be fair, the headline cuts off the final seven letters.)  And yes, "GWDanoBimsKBTDKDBGTBGHJBodaBCBWGenIrvJB" is a Googlewhack as of this posting.  From The Gateway, 1969.

A "sense of something" at the profoundly haunted, cursed, and doomed Collinwood estate.  It's the biggest understatement in over a thousand episodes.  From Dark Shadows episode 1086.