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

...Irish boy cuffs and kicks his crippled brother for a 50? piece, knocks down his mother for interfering. He escapes Chicago, wallows from bad 'to worse with liquor and women. The trainer who picks him temporarily out of the gutter, and turns him into champion boxer, he ousts unrepaid. The girl he is forced to marry he deserts penniless. But in New York he is publicized the way the public likes its champions: "Just a kid; that's all he is; a regular boy. . . . Don't know the meanin' o' bad habits. Never tasted liquor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Lardner, U.S.A. | 5/20/1929 | See Source »

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