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Word: misnomen (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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Usage:

...Uncle Tom's Cabin" literature of the South is an insult. In the first place the book isn't literature and the next place it isn't of the South. To call an I. W. W.'s interpretation of American life literature of America is rather more than a misnomen. A careful study of the circumstances which surrounded the issue of the book shows that its sole purpose was to stir up race and class hatred just the same as some organizations do today...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Communication | 3/3/1923 | See Source »

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