Word: next
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...wants to ride the rods or who does? The motorcar marked the passing of the trainride-stealing American bum, with his curious lingo. That there have never been a dozen masters in this profession is proved by the confusion of terms. To the next generation, the argot of the American hobo will be as incomprehensible as that of Villon's thieves, because apparently there is no one capable of setting them down now. Why doesn't TIME, for a time, open its columns to authoritative bum's language, so that the poets and novelists of future days...
Tammanyites hailed their Governor as a new leader, cheered him as "our next President...
...confused with the National Editorial Association whose members, meeting in Cheyenne next week, will name, by vote, Yellowstone Park's newest geyser...
Entered some Hungarian gendarmes with drawn pistols, forced Vincent Pecha to throw up his hands, searched him, clapped gyves upon his wrists. In the room next to the station restaurant "a secret military document" was found. Using suitable pressure, the Hungarians got Pecha to admit having hidden...
...told what he would do next...