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Word: tenner (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1927-1927
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...night down in Santiago when the Colonel bummed a drink of my whiskey and I wrapped him up in a tent and put him to sleep on the top of a bramble bush. . . ." Said a whiskered merry-andrew, "It was you and me that tied the bag around Johnny Tenner .... He was a great kid and he sure could beat that drum. . . . I met his girl a while back. She's married to a grocery agent now . . . funny, she should marry a drummer, huh?" The fireman's band played the tune of a bugle-call, "Soupy, soupy, soupy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Boys of '98 | 9/12/1927 | See Source »

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