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Word: brightwood (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Usage:

...pearl-handled revolver loaded with five ordinary bullets and a special silver one. All of a sudden he will hear the distant beat of tom-toms, 72 to a minute and he will start supposedly into a forest, spend his first bullet at thick of night on formless, brightwood creatures who will mock him. His second bullet will go for a Pullman porter, dead long before from a razor-slash in a crap game; his third for a prison-guard whose head he has already bashed with a shovel; his fourth and fifth for an auctioneer and a planter trying...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Native Opera | 5/23/1932 | See Source »

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