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

...send Sharkey to his corner for fouling my boy, and then they take the fight away and give it to Sharkey. What am I up against? . . ." Said Referee Magnolia: "If Johnston makes any of his accusations to me in person I'll hit him. Scott is the yellowest bum I ever saw. For 10? I'd take him into any cellar and give him a licking myself...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Sharkey v. Scott | 3/10/1930 | See Source »

...penitentiary." Old Crow, the stool pigeon trusty, "as bitter as St. Paul, and meaner in heart than Calvin;" the boy from the South who had killed his father; Nitro Dugan, the roving yegg, who had presided at the hobo "kangaroo trial" and execution of One Lung Riley, the ex-bum who had turned railroad detective and knew too much; Brother Jonathon, glib medicine-show barker, pretentious charlatan, kindly man of the world; Hypo Sleigh, the dope fiend, under whose crazed imagination the world is like a nightmare under a magnifying glass; Dippy, the pyromaniac, to whom the lighting...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Submerged Tenth | 1/20/1930 | See Source »

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