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Word: chambray (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1944-1944
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Grandmother Sophia Jane had raised eleven children. "She wore a stiffly starched white chambray bonnet, with a round crown buttoned on a narrow brim." When the cling-peach tree bloomed in her Kentucky garden, she mused: "I have planted five orchards in three States, and now I see only one tree in bloom." Her numerous descendants and her aged servants thought she was the most wonderful, most terrifyingly efficient person alive...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Texas & Berlin | 9/25/1944 | See Source »

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