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Word: hoodwinked (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1910-1919
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...hoodwink a country feller. Since William Hodge rang up a three-seasons' run in "The Man From Home," city chaps, wise guys and snobs have tried to spoof him, but William is spoof-proof. He is talking through his nose at the Majestic this week in a play called "A Cure For Curables," in which he makes considerable sport of his spoofers...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Theatre in Boston | 11/21/1917 | See Source »

...room work which is now being undertaken may not be "passed" as other work is passed, counted for a degree, and forgotten. The course of training is for the individual man that he may become a better soldier? No one is working for marks, no one is trying to hoodwink an instructor, no one is doing the minimum of study, who is fit to be an officer and a leader of men. That student cadet who allows his study of the work he has undertaken to slip by as most men have allowed their college work to slip...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SMALL PROBLEMS | 5/26/1917 | See Source »

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