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Word: scuttler (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Usage:

...Smith who had disappeared two weeks before, the undigested arm put Australian sleuths on their mettle. By last week they had reconstructed the "Shark Murder" about as follows: A drug-smuggling gang hired Smith to scuttle a yacht they had insured for $42,500 with Lloyd's. When Scuttler Smith later tried to blackmail the gang with threats of exposing them to Lloyd's, the gang had him dismembered and fed piece by piece to sharks in Sydney Harbor. Smith's tattooed arm was swallowed by a baby shark which failed to digest it before the baby...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AUSTRALIA: Shark Mystery | 9/23/1935 | See Source »

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