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Word: ahem (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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Ridiculous. The girl was no....ahem..."flapper". Those clear eyes were to transparently frank to habour double meanings, or shall we call it double entente? Was she a philosopher?....Did that noble brow shield an intellect comparable to her outward beauty?..Was this her philosophy of life...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Student Vagabond | 1/3/1928 | See Source »

Once while Horace sat at work amid a wallow of discarded newspapers there entered a caller. But Horace did not turn around. "Ahem, I am Commodore Vanderbilt," the visitor announced, after a moment...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FICTION: Pangs of Gianthood | 2/7/1927 | See Source »

...girl tell just what New York critics, Mr. Sirovich has in mind? Thank you-the next puzzle competition will consist in guessing the missing letters in Philadelpia. Henry E. Dixey and Wilton Lackaye had been on the road together in The Circle for the last eight months not without-ahem-some differences of opinion. So " Let's fight it out-10 rounds to a decision " said Mr. Dixey (64) to Mr. Lackaye (61) when the last performance came. But the shade of the Marquis of Queensbury or somebody interrupted the threatened fisticuffs and now Mr. Lackaye says...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theatre Notes, May 28, 1923 | 5/28/1923 | See Source »

...more interested in purely social gossip-the-ahem!- flittings of the stork and other such affairs. Zit's Weekly will keep you posted on matters town-topical with considerable frankness. And it runs a weekly column of " Greenwich Village Chatter " which every proprietor of a batik tearoom should read...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: Sisters Wow in Tab | 5/12/1923 | See Source »

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