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Word: punk (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...like the family Stein: There is Gert, there is Ep and there's Ein; Gert's poems are bunk, Ep's statues are punk, And nobody understands...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Sculptor Lets Fly | 10/28/1940 | See Source »

...muscles into the Naval Hospital. . . . When he pulled that crack . . . about how Willkie made his money . . . I wanted to ask . . . how Ickes first got into the chips. . . . He said I had been a sports writer. . . . The answer is that he was a sports writer himself . . . but such a punk that he never made the grade. . . . Ickes has been extremely sensitive . . . but when he is doing the punching he draws the foul line down around the kneecaps. . . . Impecunious Johnny One-Suit . . . proud to collaborate with the hoodlum government of Chicago...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CAMPAIGN: Razors in the Air | 9/2/1940 | See Source »

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