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Word: shricks (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...handwriting was accidentally bumped into a few years ago. At first sight of the papers, Colonel Isham, the discoverer, who happened to be just finishing the private printing of a nineteen-volume edition of the Tour from far inferior sources, could not decide whether to whoop with joy or shrick in dismay. Unperplexed by any such dilemma. Viking Press is whooping with...

Author: By E. W. R., | Title: The Crimson Bookshelf | 12/7/1936 | See Source »

...road through the Berkshires is none too straight, in fact, it's very winding, and after the fifth depression of the accelerator rubber began to shrick on every curve. "This fellows's a fool," barked the driver of the Chevrolet, "he doesn't know when he's had enough." Suddenly the Ford began a Bedlam of horn-honking. It threw such an unchivalrous and vulgar element into the race that the Chevrolet driver immediately became so vexed that, together with a few bitter remarks, he stuck his arm out the window and rudely motioned for the Ford to pass...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Crime | 4/28/1936 | See Source »

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