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Word: dirtiest (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...banknotes clean. The Cardinal was not surprised when Commendatore Jorio asked him to leave the check (already endorsed) overnight, until the fresh bills required could be scrambled for and sorted out. Hastily, when the august robed figure of His Eminence was gone, godless Spider Jorio cashed the check into dirtiest tainted money, cashed two much larger checks also fraudulently obtained for a total of 461,534 lira, skittered...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Vampires & Exploiters | 11/25/1929 | See Source »

...recent years to examine street paving in various cities from Los Angeles and San Francisco, Chicago and St. Louis, Detroit and Cleveland, to Boston, New York, Philadelphia and Baltimore. Baltimore has by far the best paved streets and the cleanest streets. Philadelphia has the worst paved and dirtiest streets, with St. Louis a close second. WM. H. THOMSON...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Sep. 26, 1927 | 9/26/1927 | See Source »

...Bayonne, N. J., last week disbanded its cast of 62 players, not daring to enter New York City. That was some comfort for Mr. Sumner, whose attention was further occupied last week by his $100,000 damage suit against Publisher Bernarr Macfadden's daily pornoGraphic. The Graphic, dirtiest daily in the U. S., had advocated legislation to stamp out "Comstockism and Sumnerism...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theatre: Noncensorship | 2/21/1927 | See Source »

...What retired boxing Champion said last week that boxing is "the dirtiest game in the world...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Quiz: Sep. 13, 1926 | 9/13/1926 | See Source »

...finally came through all 200 of them with my eyes and ears normal. But I was lucky and skillful and don't think much of boxing as a manly art. Said I, 'Unless you're a champion or a near-champion, it's the dirtiest game in the world...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Sep. 13, 1926 | 9/13/1926 | See Source »

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