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Word: sniped (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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Usage:

That booms on the hobbling bay!" Snickered the snark to the snoozing snipe...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Children's Laureate | 1/11/1926 | See Source »

...kernel is sound. A young man who lives and breathes only for syncopation marries into a dry-goods family with emporiums the country over. For four years he is bound by the chain store shackle. The family still regard him as a cheap actor, a low comedian, a gutter snipe. He makes the obvious burst and, as the final curtain falls, is headed for Broadway and a career of sound public service as a song-and-dance...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theatre: New Plays: Feb. 9, 1925 | 2/9/1925 | See Source »

...reported I showed 'decided pique,' called the public 'mental cripples,' the critics 'quite insane.' Said I: 'If I felt like it, I would write a play that would take a month to perform. Why shouldn't I? ... It is absurd to treat me as though I were a gutter snipe...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Imaginary Interviews: Mar. 3, 1924 | 3/3/1924 | See Source »

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