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Word: crook-talk (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1928-1928
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Usage:

...such pieces nowadays, the fight-talk, crook-talk and woman-talk is entertaining and inoffensive because it seems to come from the interstices, rather than the undercrust of contemporary society...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theatre: New Plays in Manhattan: Sep. 10, 1928 | 9/10/1928 | See Source »

...looked gaga at Cora, she at him. He joined O'Connor in the alien-running scheme. What he turned out to be after all only faintly interested slim audiences, their tympanic membranes offended by too-frequent gunfire. One James Hagan wrote the play, showed only that he knows crook-talk...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: New Plays in Manhattan: Aug. 20, 1928 | 8/20/1928 | See Source »

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