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Word: durn (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...what Samuel S. Hinds (who was the father who played with fireworks in You Can't Take It With You) would do to Destry Rides Again. As a top-hatted, bespectacled, tobacco-chawing old mayor of Bottle Neck, and a crooked stand-in of its bad men, he durn near runs away with the show...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Dec. 18, 1939 | 12/18/1939 | See Source »

From a hotel in Prince Albert, Saskatchewan, to catch a train for Flin Flon, Manitoba, rushed a salesman with coat flying, bag in one hand, hotel water jug in the other. Accused of stealing the crockery, he cried: "I know, but my teeth are frozen in this durn...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Dec. 27, 1937 | 12/27/1937 | See Source »

...businessman, he has sold enough patents, like those for the front-wheel drive under which Cord operates, to make him several fortunes. Yet he is perpetually in financial straits, once refusing to discuss a deal which might have made him rich because the manufacturer "talked engines like a durn fool...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Race Without Death | 6/11/1934 | See Source »

Esley Stebbins: I tell ye they're mine, durn...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Storm Over Maine | 6/6/1932 | See Source »

...with his father at the Hotel Brunswick in Boston's fashionable Back Bay district. When Cattle-raiser Curtis went again to Boston last week, to sell 43 head of stock to the Brighton abattoir, he was reminded by his 97-year-old parent that "it's a durn good hotel." Accordingly he signed his name once more on the Brunswick's blotter and remarked casually to Desk Clerk Henry Nelson: "I guess you better take care of Bess out there...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Animals: Bess in Boston | 3/23/1931 | See Source »

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