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Word: heckter (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Usage:

...Dallas, Tex., police picked up a shaggy-haired young man they found on the street late at night, dressed only in long cotton underdrawers. At headquarters he explained: "I'm Heckter. I hail from up yonder by Weldon, Ark. One night maw was reading to me out of a book and she come across a sign that said somethin' about how you can learn to be a great singer from a teacher in Dallas. Maw made me a pretty new shirt, give me some money and showed me the road to git on comin' this...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Jun. 24, 1935 | 6/24/1935 | See Source »

...path leadin' to the place I wanted to go and I couldn't see no little house. Well, I got turned around then and I couldn't tell which was my house so I started walkin' because I was cold." After explaining city ways to Heckter, the police took him home...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Jun. 24, 1935 | 6/24/1935 | See Source »

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