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Word: smackers (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Impero. Last fortnight Editor Carli outraged smart Italian women who slenderize themselves and refuse to have children by telling them (TIME, Jan. 21) that "such sweet egotists, such darling morsels of vanity, should be soundly smacked on every possible occasion!" Last week, even this ungallant bravado was eclipsed when Smacker Carli took a sounding wallop at tourists...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ITALY: Fat Tourists Smacked | 1/28/1929 | See Source »

...dollar bill that has been the great staple of U. S. currency. Even the most modestly salaried individual can "flash a roll" of ones. Homely, democratic, sanctified by custom, the one-dollar bill has been taken to the U. S. bosom, lovingly christened "bean," "buck," "berry," "simoleon," "iron man," "smacker," "plunk," "rock," "kelp" (always in the plural which employs no "s"; e. g. "14 kelp."). Meanwhile the Treasury Department has found itself faced with a printing bill of millions of dollars yearly. It was costing money to make money...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CABINET: Paper-Cutting | 6/6/1927 | See Source »

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