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Word: cusses (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...that that is over this paper does not propose to be browbeaten any more for 'dern' his hide not even his family are mourning his death-they are all glad the mean old cuss has gone and where he has gone the Editor of this paper hopes he will not have...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Press: Apology | 3/14/1938 | See Source »

Addressing the Buffalo Advertising Club, Professor Burges Johnson, chairman of the department of English at Union College, Schenectady, N. Y. and onetime editor-in-chief of Judge, declared: "Mark Twain is the alltime, all-America cusser. He could cuss five solid minutes without repeating himself...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Jun. 7, 1937 | 6/7/1937 | See Source »

Refusing to meet Elliott Roosevelt the local airport, Pittsburgh's eccentric Mayor William Nissley McNair growled: "I won't shake hands with of the Roosevelts." The President's second son said he thought Mayor McNair "a surly sort of cuss...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, May 4, 1936 | 5/4/1936 | See Source »

...more Whitmanesque vein: he is large, he contains multitudes. Touted as a short-story writer, mostly because his "stones" are written in prose, he seldom sets down a formal narrative. Most of his "stories" are poetic shouts-no less lyrical for being written in street-language with many a cuss word-swelling the chorus of a "Song of Myself." It might almost have been Saroyan who wrote...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Barbaric Yawp | 3/2/1936 | See Source »

...time-honored method of flirting with another man, finds the other man more attractive than the husband, runs away with him. And it represents Tallulah Bankhead's third time at bat this season (previous plays: Dark Victory, Rain). While Something Gay affords Miss Bankhead ample opportunity to cuss and cuddle, its dialog is so low-pressure, its scheme so trivial that critics sorrowfully had to credit her with another strikeout. Actress Bankhead is evidently having as much difficulty finding a proper vehicle for her lush talents as her Congressional father and uncle are having trying to grope their legislative...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theatre: New Plays in Manhattan: May 13, 1935 | 5/13/1935 | See Source »

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