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Word: dixey (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Gillespie was an innocuously ordinary type. Put through college and launched in San Francisco business and society by Woman No. 1, his penny-watching, ambitious mother, his future looked fairly rosy. He should have married Woman No. 2, Dixey, with whom he fell in love at college; but she had no money, even less background than Bob, so his mother soon put a stop to that. Woman No. 3, Pen, hollow-chested but popular debutante, had hearty parental approval. Pen was not rich but she had an aged aunt who was. Meantime Bob became pleasantly entangled with Woman...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Love in California | 5/22/1933 | See Source »

...colonel. Demobilized, Bob went back to San Francisco, married Julia and settled down. Then Bella appeared again, lured him away. But when she took to drink he was disgusted with her. Bella, creature of impulse, shot him in the stomach. The nurse at his deathbed was none other than Dixey, his old college...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Love in California | 5/22/1933 | See Source »

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