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Word: dufferish (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1943-1943
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...Harold Dewey Smith's 45th birthday did not make even the society column of his home-town paper, the Arlington, Va. Daily. Because it was Sunday, Mr. Smith celebrated his arrival at this milestone of middle age by sleeping late (9:30 a.m.) and playing eleven holes of dufferish golf at the nearby Washing ton Golf and Country Club, a course which would test a mountain goat. (If his tall, athletic wife Lillian had gone along, she would have trounced him. She shoots in the low 80s.) At dinner there was a cake, which they ate on the porch...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The General Manager | 6/14/1943 | See Source »

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