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Word: boncoeur (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Usage:

...West"), who has spent a third of his waking time in poolrooms, a third in jail, a third in public libraries, and is always shouting "Yes, yes, yes!" to every experience. Dean and Sal and their other buddies-Carlo Marx, the frenzied poet; Ed Dunkel, an amiable cipher; Remi Boncoeur, who has the second loudest laugh in San Francisco-are forever racing cross-country to meet one another. Their frantic reunions are curiously reminiscent of lodge and business conventions, with the same shouts of fellowship, hard drinking, furtive attempts at sexual dalliance-and, after a few days, the same boredom...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Ganser Syndrome | 9/16/1957 | See Source »

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