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Word: black-bottom (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1927-1927
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Usage:

...Chicago, one Otto Teeter, traveling man, posed proudly for a Tribune photographer to show off his new "black-bottom" trousers? white flannel with black cuffs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Canes | 4/18/1927 | See Source »

...three-walled limitations of ordinary theatre. Thus, in Loud Speaker, the candidate for governor of the State may be discovered mulling over his radio speech in one corner of the stage, while his memory of an Atlantic City bathing beauty may be enacted in another corner. His daughter may black-bottom on an upper level and his wife receive a weird, bearded, hypnotic lover on still another. By proper punctuation and emphasis, such a production may be made colorful, clear, rapid, nervous, like jazz music. But, though the new playwrights deserve credit for the enterprise, Mr. Lawson's "farce...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theatre: New Plays in Manhattan: Mar. 14, 1927 | 3/14/1927 | See Source »

...York American's Christmas Fund, good people. Don't miss it. Famous musicians, jazz babies, black-bottom wrigglers, prima donnas perform as the freaks are led out. Get the most for your dollar...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Xmas, Inc. | 1/3/1927 | See Source »

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