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Word: bunco (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1900-1909
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...CRIMSON baseball team will administer its annual drubbing to the Lampoon aggregation of ball-muffers, on the Freshman Diamond, this afternoon, at 4 o'clock sharp. This bunch of pseudo-literary bunco-steerers, whose motto is "millions from advertisements, but not one line of humor," have profited in their business to such a degree that they were able to offer Hans Wagner a fabulous sum to play for them. Although he refused, being unwilling to associate with such an unscrupulous body, these wielders of the shears and paste-pot will undoubtedly pull of some equally delicate bit of delicious humor...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Contest for Journalistic Supremacy | 5/25/1909 | See Source »

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