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Word: awfulest (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...reacted from their "monasticism" of a few years ago and voted 157 to 1 for social freedom. The single vote in favor of the rule was obviously satiric, since the balloter stated on the back that he thought the law "just keen" and that it kept boys from the "awfulest trouble...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Voters Snow Under New Parietal Law by Record Landslide Count | 11/20/1936 | See Source »

Funnyman Will Rogers sailed for the Orient with his friend Correspondent Floyd Gibbons to report the Manchurian hostilities. Said he: "Japan is going to hear the awfulest compliments, as I hear they don't stand for any wisecracks...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Nov. 30, 1931 | 11/30/1931 | See Source »

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