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Word: soaked (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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University--"The Old Soak"--2 to 11 o'clock. So's your...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: WHAT'S GOING ON IN BOSTON TONIGHT | 11/5/1926 | See Source »

...Soak the mossbacks, poke the thinskins, ridicule the stuck-ups but don't let my subscription lapse. I'm seriously considering dispensing with the daily papers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Nov. 1, 1926 | 11/1/1926 | See Source »

...Soak! Poke...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Nov. 1, 1926 | 11/1/1926 | See Source »

...beloved soak in the Atlanta penitentiary have tears of joy in his eyes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Quiz: Aug. 23, 1926 | 8/23/1926 | See Source »

John Wesley Langley, beloved soak, bleary-eyed disciple of Sir John Falstaff,† was ten times elected Congressman from Kentucky by bone-dry, Fundamentalist, Republican mountaineers. His tongue knew well the golden mellowness of old Kentucky "corn," his hand had felt the frost of tall mint juleps, but he remained faithful, legislatively, to the arid principles of his constituents. He had been arrested for intoxication in both Pikeville, Ky., and Washington, D. C., but Congressmen continued to admire his genial philosophy, his legal knowledge. He is now serving a two-year term in the Atlanta penitentiary for conspiracy to violate...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Spouse | 8/23/1926 | See Source »

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