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Word: cuss (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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Usage:

...plenty-is largely laid in the beer king's den, a place of small tables, gats, a periscope, and other gangish claptrap. Here, in a moment of solicitous passion, one of the beer king's favorites whispered to a hushed house: "It ull sunds silly of cuss." That was true...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: New Plays in Manhattan: Sep. 3, 1928 | 9/3/1928 | See Source »

Republican Senators, ill particular, had many vexing items to dis cuss-not the least of which was the status of Arthur R. Gould, the pride of Aroostook County, Maine. Mr. Gould was the Republican nominee for Senator to succeed the late Senator Bert M. Fernald, and was expected to win the special election last week without a murmur. But, one week before election, noxious charges against him began to pop up. His Democratic opponent, Fulton J. Redman, produced records of a Canadian investigation of 1918 in which Mr. Gould admitted under oath paying $100,000 to one-time Premier...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CONGRESS: In Maine | 12/6/1926 | See Source »

...within me a very real feeling of emotion. I'm like that. Beneath a rough exterior lurks, and always has lurked a vein of sentiment. Even in those early days back in Shemokin, Pa., they told me I would never get very far because I was such a sentimental cuss. And now look at me--but that is another story...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SHEMOKIN IDOL MAKES SENSATIONAL COMEBACK | 9/27/1926 | See Source »

...first time it was in connection with two soldiers who were being court-martialed for making derogatory statements about the U.S. Government. You told enough that they said without repeating their cuss words...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Apr. 26, 1926 | 4/26/1926 | See Source »

...they the cuss words of hard boiled Marines...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE CRIME | 10/8/1925 | See Source »

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