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Word: goodsman (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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Usage:

...told, put in an appearance. The first (Audrey's hubby) is tossed battered from a speeding train. The second (a mountainous lummox with a hook where his right hand oughta be) we discover face up and fish lipped in an overflowing bathtub. Number three (a balding dry-goodsman from the Bronx or someplace) gets his throat most ostentatiously slashed in an early-morning elevator. The last is an evil-tempered Texan named, curiously enough, "Tex." Audrey finds him bound head to foot, his nostrils sucking in at a polyethylene laundry...

Author: By Jacob R. Brackman, | Title: Charade | 3/3/1964 | See Source »

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