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Word: friskier (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Usage:

...Senator Robert Hendrickson, with the lukewarm backing of a Clean Government bloc, is running for Governor against bouncing, bumptious ex-Governor Harold Hoffman, one of the minor phenomena of Jersey politics. Reviled, threatened with impeachment, pronounced politically dead after his meddling with the Hauptmann case, bullocky Mr. Hoffman is friskier than ever. He counters the charge that he is a Hague Republican with the retort: "I like Hague as much as Haig & Haig. I take both of them when I want them but neither is my master." Most discouraging of all to Pastor Clee and the Clean Government League...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NEW JERSEY: Boss | 5/20/1940 | See Source »

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