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Word: whopper (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Experienced theatregoers worried little whether Lightnin' would date, knowing that it already dated when first written. For old as folk drama is the tale of warm-hearted Lightnin' Bill Jones, who loafs as chronically as Rip van Winkle, lies as outrageously as Tartarin of Tarascon. Typical whopper: how he drove a swarm of bees across a prairie in the dead of winter without losing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: Old Play in Manhattan: Sep. 26, 1938 | 9/26/1938 | See Source »

...Whopper...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany: Partisan | 5/16/1938 | See Source »

...Streets takes off from the same social springboard as Dead End's, but misses its footing, comes a belly-whopper...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Dec. 20, 1937 | 12/20/1937 | See Source »

...limericks will not be printed about the same person until considerable time has clasped, and not even then unless it is a whopper, it is a good idea to develop a loss outstanding character rather then do a mediocre job on one of the grand patoots...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Limerick Contest Will Give Chance At Dollar a Week to Playful Artists | 10/19/1937 | See Source »

Second-best whopper came from Liar Roman Links of San Francisco: Taking advantage of an impenetrable San Francisco fog, Liar Links had ingeniously sprayed the fog with black ink, hacked it up, sold it for coal...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Jan. 11, 1937 | 1/11/1937 | See Source »

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