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Word: offa (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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John O'Hara, best selling literary specialist in big-city barflies, heels and floozies, got a thorough quoting-over from New York Post Columnist Earl Wilson, who interviewed him at a bar. O'Hara by Wilson: "If I write any extended work, I gotta goddam well get offa the booze. . . . Well, I'm going to level with you about Pal Joey. You are a guy that's got to be on the eerie, and you heard I wrote it while I was on the sauce. I didn't. I was sober ... I started...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Inside Dopesters | 4/8/1946 | See Source »

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