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Word: scram (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Finally Gene nudged him off the table. "Come on, come on, how about it? Scram." Nothing ever worried Gene. What an easy-going guy he was! Easy going off the field, that...

Author: By J. P. L., | Title: The Vagabond | 11/25/1939 | See Source »

...fool all the people some of the time,' " etc. Later that day Otto smashed the teeth of another Hitler Youth he caught baiting an old Jewish woman, got a warm handshake from the Nazi cop who rushed him to a quiet side street, told him to scram...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Murmurous Germany | 3/13/1939 | See Source »

...nearly spoiled a rehearsal when Soloist Maximillian Veith, a lithographic demonstrator with a Hitler mustache, became piqued at Dirigent Stiens, commanded the orchestra: "When I am in your city I play as I wish. Now you must follow me. If you do not like it, take your instruments and scram...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Zither Congress | 10/25/1937 | See Source »

...just been to a party. I didn't have much to drink, so along about two-thirty I get bored, and I go look for my roommate, and I say to him, "Charley," I say, "1ct's scram. Lulie ain't here and things're too damned tame." But my roommate, Charley's his name, he says, "Oh, go dance with the hostess then." Only he says it sort of ominous-like. So I ask one of these flunkeys with a white flower in his button-hole which is the hostess. And he points over to a girl that looks...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Your Uncle Smugly Says | 10/21/1937 | See Source »

...Yonkers, N. Y., Rev Verlynn Sprague was having his shoes shined by a young bootblack. One shoe finished, a policeman ambled by, ordered the boy to "scram." The boy departed. Mr. Sprague protested he was not satisfied with half a shoeshine. The policeman accused him ot interfering with an officer in performance of duty, arrested him for disorderly conduct...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Aug. 23, 1937 | 8/23/1937 | See Source »

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