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Word: crashers (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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With bad taste and good propaganda, an uninvited guest crashed Panama City last week where a party for representatives of the 21 American countries was gathering. The party folks were all Americans, all Lima conferees, all concerned with keeping the American hemisphere out of war. The crasher was a belligerent, a German, an official-Dr. Otto Reinebeck, German minister accredited to all Central American countries-and he brought with him a staff of assistants whose names and number were a guarded secret. Throughout South America, German propaganda agencies simultaneously charged that the parley was merely a device by which...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AMERICAS: No Big Brother | 10/2/1939 | See Source »

...methods of getting into those affairs," the noted crasher went on, "I have many. The most embarrassing, of course, is when I have to resort to a butler's uniform and go in through the kitchen...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Fanatic Moocher Crashes Gates of Most Deb Parties | 2/23/1939 | See Source »

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