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Word: hisself (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Virginians were confused and worried. "That John," said an Irish-born shot-firer in the Kanawha coalfields, "he be the greatest man of the 20th Century, but I be damned if we'uns can figure him out this time ... I think John be a thinkin' o'hisself...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LABOR: It'd Better Be Good | 11/21/1949 | See Source »

...Crump can go and catch hisself some...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TENNESSEE: No Free Riders | 8/16/1948 | See Source »

...Crump can go and catch hisself some...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TENNESSEE: No Free Riders | 8/16/1948 | See Source »

...ancient Negro in a battered porkpie hat used to lead visitors to a special stall at Faraway Farm, Ky. and say proudly: "An' heah, ladies an' gen'men, is Man o' War hisself. . . . He weigh 13 hunnert an' seventy-fi' pounds. I say, come heah...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Big Red | 11/10/1947 | See Source »

...Smithfield (meat), at Billingsgate (fish), at Covent Garden (vegetables), the strikers stood aside, watching placidly, but with professional scorn, as the soldiers inexpertly tugged and hauled unaccustomed burdens. Sighed one striking porter as a young Coldstream Guardsman struggled with a sack of potatoes: "He'll rupture hisself if he don't watch...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Operation Eatables | 1/27/1947 | See Source »

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