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Word: pushtu (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1923-1923
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...later, passed the hat. He was clubbed in a police attack upon a socialist meeting, overworked in the asparagus and hopfields of California and once was forced to act as an interpreter between Salvation Army workers and a group of Mohammedan laborers who " told filthy stories in Pushtu " (which sounds singularly evil). His one and only lucrative job evaporated when he discovered that, quite without his knowledge, he was being used by a group of fake-spiritualists to add, by his turbaned presence, proper mystic color to their meetings. Altogether, he saw Amerca as few foreign visitors...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Caste and Outcast* | 7/23/1923 | See Source »

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