What is the origin of the phrase "hundred-dollar word"?

What is the origin of the phrase "hundred-dollar word"?
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Welcome to Fluther. I have never heard the expression, hundred dollar word. I have heard people talk about million dollar words or million dollar vocabulary. Is that the kind of thing you have in mind?
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