Word: bellyband
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...Wrinkles) uses the broad strokes of Restoration comedy to distance the new book from his former employer. Surnames of staff members on the influential weekly Belles Lettres derive from the nomenclature of publishing and typography. Among the arcana: Jonathan Margin, Virginia Wrappers, Claire Tippin, Lou Bodoni, Xavier Deckle, Ellie Bellyband and Sylvia Topstain...
...flannel was at a premium. Every girl was sewing a red flannel bellyband for her favorite soldier, the theory being that it would keep out tropical fevers by day and the jungle damp by night. Private Charles Johnson Post was especially lucky. True, he had no ammunition when he left for the Spanish-American War, but he did have two gorgeous red bellybands...
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