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Word: cottons (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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Usage:

...hundred gentlemen of Mississippi, standing, with handkerchiefs over their faces, on a bridge near Picayune, one night last week, derived considerable amusement from the spectacle of a man who stood trembling before them in a cotton nightshirt with a rope around his neck. The other end of the rope was attached to the railing of the bridge...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: In Picayune | 5/3/1926 | See Source »

...been watching this man. He was known to control the Delaware & Hudson with its 30-odd affiliated companies in the East. In the Middle West he was chairman of the Kansas City Southern, boss of the Missouri-Kansas-Texas (the "Katy") and of the St. Louis Southwestern (the "Cotton Belt"). Of the latter road Edwin Gould was nominally chairman, the last of the Goulds to hold such a position...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: L. F. Loree | 5/3/1926 | See Source »

Copley--"Andrew Takes a Wife", by William Cotton...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: BOARDS and BILLBOARDS | 4/30/1926 | See Source »

Copley--"Andrew Takes a Wife", by William Cotton...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: BOARDS and BILLBOARDS | 4/28/1926 | See Source »

April 19--"Andrew Takes a Wife," it the Copley. William Cotton's comedy for the first time anywhere...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CRIMSON PLAYGOER | 4/7/1926 | See Source »

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