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Word: bohunk (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...removed from that type of creature that plagues editors and other public people with "nut" letters. He has passionate grievances, Tom o' Bedlam's honesty and a spilling store of acrid Americana to relate. Son of Puritans, he was raised among "that prairie tribe, conglomerate of Dutchman, Bohunk, Railroad Irish and Indiana Yankee" in Nebraska and Kansas...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Pretty Crazy | 10/25/1926 | See Source »

Your literary editor must be a "native New Yorker," born in Bohunk, Iowa, and "never been outside of New York in his life." He exhibits the provincial intolerance and superiority so often seen in the uncultured New York business...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Sep. 28, 1925 | 9/28/1925 | See Source »

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