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Word: dirtiest (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...cheap and sleazy work designed to part the populace from tears, gasps and money was produced under this unmistakable title. The play is about a harlot who falls in love with a respectable and attractive young man. It is perhaps the dirtiest and the dullest play of the season...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theatre: New Plays: May 10, 1926 | 5/10/1926 | See Source »

...where a forced landing meant 'curtains' [i. e. dropped curtains-Death]." Pilot Earl Reber of the NA-3, despite an attack of stomach ulcers that kept him on a milk diet for weeks, was credited with the most miles flown. Reber described the foggy flying weather as "dirtiest ever...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: MacMillan Back | 10/19/1925 | See Source »

...home base of enforcement, let the politicians do their dirtiest, and you will...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Prohibition | 8/3/1925 | See Source »

...Titus Oates all its own. Some think it has been "conquering Japan on the oil-fields of California." Soon there will fly from the top of the Capital the proud boast of the country's state-men: "America expects every man to do (and say) his dirtiest...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE RADICAL LAW SCHOOL | 3/29/1924 | See Source »

Artists and Models. Despite a scene "in Henry Ford's Cabinet, 1924" with William Jennings Bryan, Thomas A. Edison, Edsel Ford present among the secretaries, Variety, trade paper of the theatre and bulletin board of the stage, stated that Artists and Models was the " dirtiest revue " (in point of risque jokes) ever put on in New York and that if the police did not stop it, nothing else could...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: New Plays: Sep. 3, 1923 | 9/3/1923 | See Source »

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