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Word: brags (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...cops and all the FBI men seemed to be getting nowhere, though empty Federal Reserve moneybags were turning up all over the eastern U.S. They had hope that the ancient enemies of the criminal would work to help them -the temptation to drink and brag, to spend conspicuously, to quarrel over shares, to tell their molls too much. But it might take a while before the boys got tired of just riffling their fingers through a million dollars in cool cash, or lighting cigarettes with $1,000 bills...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CRIME: A Cool Million | 1/30/1950 | See Source »

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