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...feet for 15 rough-house rounds with Joe Louis in 1937 got smacked with a $45 fine in a British court for breaking the nose of a naval cadet in a pub brawl. Farr pleaded self-defense, said the cadet had referred to him as a "third-rate fighting punk...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: People, Feb. 26, 1945 | 2/26/1945 | See Source »

...Bread Punk...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Dec. 18, 1944 | 12/18/1944 | See Source »

...statues are punk...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Genius at Home | 7/24/1944 | See Source »

Skunk, Squash. The DAE pudding, however, contains many a juicy plum. It shows English being enriched, from the earliest days, by borrowings from the U.S. From the Indians came possum, persimmon, punk, skunk, squash, succotash; from the Dutch, cruller, sawbuck, scow, slaw, snoop, stoop, waffle; from the Spanish, cafeteria, calaboose, lariat, mustang; from the German, cranberry...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Talking United States | 2/7/1944 | See Source »

...Shohiza-punk or jerk...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Army & Navy - Leatherneck Lingo | 7/19/1943 | See Source »

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