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Word: doll (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1880-1889
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...participation in athletics, which is seen at all large schools for women, is rightly regarded as one of the most promising signs of the times; and there are many who predict that the day will come when the active woman of sense and strength will entirely supersede the languid doll of sentiment and fancy...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Athletics at Wellesley. | 4/28/1886 | See Source »

...heads without number, ideal, real, wise and otherwise. "A Saucy School Girl," by S. R. Burleigh; an "Ideal Head," by Fowler, and a weird, strangely effective, but well executed study called "Astarte," by F. W. Freer, and many others of equal merit. Passing across the common, one comes to Doll & Richards'. Here, on entering, one sees a beautiful exhibition of Chelsea faience. Going up stairs one finds a fair collection of paintings, a pleasant relief from the black and white exhibit just left. Among the most noticeable, are a saloon picture, by Chester Loomis, a well handled figure-piece...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A STROLL THROUGH THE GALLERIES. | 1/16/1882 | See Source »

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