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

...began with the sixty-five cents. The box office, it seems, held no allurements. And then there was the foyer, and with it, all relative to the sixty-five cents, was that appealing influence of Oxford on a South End accent gently intoning that discouraged something about a "Bettah seelekshun." Those fifteen pairs of trodden toes reacted in the usual incoherent manner. The patron saint of sleeping dogs keeps watch over the soles of metropolitan theatre-goers...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CRIMSON PLAYGOER | 2/18/1933 | See Source »

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