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Word: scurryin (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...more shipyard and less "gingerbread an paint", there would likewise be less hue and cry about the decadence of American letters. "Well, 'Glory', ole girl . . . they went an' busted up the shipyard; they went an' filled the harbor with bo'ts made o gingerbread an paint, that come a-scurryin' back to their moorin's a fore it blows hard enough to muss a woman's hair. Not much like ye, them yachts. I'd like to see one o'them bo'ts beatin' round the Horn an' up to Californy in ninety-two days! That's what ye done...

Author: By Burke Boyce, | Title: SHIPS, TRADITION, AND LITERATURE | 11/24/1923 | See Source »

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