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Word: bandeau (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...allegedly American?but what shrewd Frenchwoman is ignorant of these? Some of the tennis scenes are a bit stodgy and childish, coming from a temperamental cosmopolite, but a big trente-et-quarante act redeems them. In fine, there is a thick sprinkling of evidence that within a certain bright bandeau is a head whose clarity has not been greatly affected by occasional, more or less comprehensible, enlargements...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NON-FICTION, FICTION: Gladstone v. Disraeli | 3/22/1926 | See Source »

...able to be present at the congress. Following the announcement of her election, Mrs. Cook made her first speech as President General. She came forward " in a becoming costume of blue moire silk and georgette crepe with an ankle length skirt. Her hat was of blue satin with a bandeau of white roses." Said...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Speeches and Elections | 4/28/1923 | See Source »

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