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Word: dressers (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...when he heard a male pianist at the French Opera House. Until then he had assumed that the piano was a woman's instrument. He took some lessons at a Catholic school, but considers his real mentor an eight-fingered virtuoso named Mamie Desdume, "good-natured, a fine dresser, and extremely popular with the sporting crowd." Mamie played the first blues Jelly ever heard, and she is gratefully recalled in the album by Mamie's Blues...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Jelly | 3/11/1940 | See Source »

...doctor with my fist," the boxer confessed. The secretary's persistency enraged him. "I reached for something that was on the table or the dresser... I don't know what it was ... I lost my head...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CRIME: Killer Kehler | 1/1/1940 | See Source »

...explained to the satisfaction of the Brooklyn district attorney's office were these facts: Engelberg appeared to have been asleep when he was attacked, and by the horrible look of his face, the "something on the dresser" which Haas-Kehler said he grasped must have been...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CRIME: Killer Kehler | 1/1/1940 | See Source »

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