Word: scram
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Scram...
...late Ringgold Wilmer ("Ring") Lardner once listed what he considered the ten most beautiful words in English. They were: gangrene, flit, scram, mange, wretch, smoot, guzzle, McNaboe, blute, crene...
...poor district of Chicago. Crawling through a broken skylight they came upon a 2½-year-old girl huddled on a pile of debris, her naked body black with frostbite. The boys whispered excitedly. Then an older boy, bold-eyed and sturdy in long pants, entered the ice house. "Scram, you!" he growled. The small boys ran off to the police. It did not take them long then to track down George Rogalski. The little girl, Dorette Zietlow, who had been missing for two days, was rushed to a hospital. That night she died. At her funeral, few days later...
...GWAN, SCRAM. THERE'S A NICE PLACE FOR YOUR KIND BEHIND THE BARS...
...Angel (Paramount). When the fiancee of a young man whom she is trying successfully to seduce calls at her penthouse, Tira (Mae West) is not amused. "I'll trouble you to scram," she says, gesticulating with her hips. When she has pushed her caller through the door, Tira feels the need of light refreshment. "Beulah, peel me a grape," she tells her maid...