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Word: boodlers (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1928-1928
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Usage:

Political epithets, accustomed as they are to being taken with a counter-epithet or with a laugh, seldom provoke a libel suit. When a senator or a mayor calls a man a stool pigeon, a snooper, a boodler, a buffoon, a scoundrel, a scalawag or a person weaned on a pickle, he apparently considers himself safe from libel proceedings. And, in legislative chambers, he is. But in a mayor's chair...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Libel | 3/12/1928 | See Source »

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