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Word: dropper (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...credit, Hellman is neither a name dropper nor a restaurant and resort recorder. Those standbys of nostalgia, Gerald and Sara Murphy, crossed her path, but she merely remarks that they were perhaps "not as bonny or without troubles with each other" as they are usually depicted. Edmund Wilson appears, not as a mighty mind but as a comfortable pal who said sane things. Dorothy Parker was a close if infuriating friend. In 1937 she and Lillian traveled to Paris together. Parker was invited by the rich and famous to "tennis she didn't play and pools she didn...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Half-Told Tales | 10/1/1973 | See Source »

...color can be achieved by boiling in a color remover or stretching the fabric on the floor and rubbing on chlorine bleach (which has to be removed in a washing machine). Dazzling variations can be created by twisting the elastic around the bunched material and using a medicine dropper or squeeze bottle to drop the dye into folds and crevices of the cloth...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Modern Living: The Psychedelic Tie-Dye Look | 1/26/1970 | See Source »

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