Word: aproned
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...fair sex refused to let their apron strings continue to serve as political shackles. In their loud demand for franchisement they promised to clean up government and close down the saloons...
...police detective, but what was formerly known as a "fly cop" [a sharp cop], and "that's a fact, ma'am" ... As for the officers who write asking Webb if he is a genuine member of the police department-they must be constables from Nellie's Apron or Possum Trot. The outstanding characteristic that he portrays is police mediocrity. One day he is looking for a little boy pulling a red wagon and next he is working on an important case ... He doesn't personify the L.A.P.D.'s homicide detective, Le Roy Sanderson, who could...
...machines downstairs, seems almost caught between the academic life and the work of a scientist. The upstairs rooms are clean and orderly. Downstairs there is machinery, the walls are not so shiny. Birch's own dress, a plaid tie and oxford shirt, partly concealed under a mechanic's apron, reveals part of a double life...
Adam's Apron. Last week the British Museum was celebrating its 200th birthday, and with typical scholarly restraint was making no great hullabaloo over the anniversary. The only variation in the routine in the huge, Grecian-façaded building in Great Russell Street was an exhibition of the Sloane Manuscripts, part of the collection on which the museum was founded...
...snake skin which you may believe The serpent cast that tempted Eve. A fig-leaf apron, 'tis the same ' Which Adam wore to hide his shame . . . It is my wish, it is my glory to furnish your knick knackatory...