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Word: poofs (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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When a whim gets into big (250 pounds), jolly Congressman Frank Boykin, it sits there gnawing like a boll weevil until he does something about it. Like when he was 16, a poof farm boy, and got the urge to make money. Frank went out, became one of Alabama's biggest lumber and turpentine tycoons, and made himself a few million. Or like the other day, when he got the idea he should do something for his old pal, Speaker Sam Rayburn...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CAPITAL: Love Feast | 8/15/1949 | See Source »

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