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Word: brags (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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Usage:

...will come here to enter the real estate business. I believe the time has come to draw the line against all foreigners and make this a 100% American and Gentile city. There are inevitable slums where there are many foreigners, and we want to be able to continue to brag that we have no slums here...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Floridian Jews | 8/18/1924 | See Source »

...pore. . . . Nobody want to relax; nobody wants to ruminate, or drowse, or dream. We cultivate business on the golf course, solicit orders on furious motor drives on State highways, and go through violent motions in the unspeakable gymnasium because we don't know how to sit. . . . Unless you can brag about your score at this or that, unless you can recount your hunting tales and speeding yarns, you talk in strange languages to your luncheon campanions. We are a nation of sweating amateurs...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: COMMENT | 1/14/1921 | See Source »

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