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Word: bellbottom (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1926-1926
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...evening last week, Mr. Calisch sat at his usual table in his usual cafeteria. In came a slender figure in a serge coat and grey "bellbottom" trousers, with a cap pulled so far down over the cadaverous face that only the high hooked nose of Emanuel Silberstein showed out from beneath. Moving up behind his old tutor, the youth raised a squat hammer (a cobbler's) and beat upon the bowed white skull. James Calisch was unconscious, his cranium crushed beyond repair, before other patrons could seize Student Silberstein...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Calisch & Silberstein | 9/6/1926 | See Source »

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