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Word: esta (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...MISS ESTA MAUDE'S SECRET (story and pictures by W. T. Cummings; Whittlesey House; $3.25) is as American as Our Town. Esta Maude Hay is a spinster schoolteacher who lives in a rickety house on the edge of town, with two cats, a goldfish and a parrot. She dresses in black and drives a black, vintage tin lizzie, known as "Miss Esta Maude's machine." But Esta Maude has a flaming secret vice, a racy, sin-red sports car that she drives like the wind of a Friday midnight. Author-Illustrator Cummings manages to be folksy, foxy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: For Children | 8/4/1961 | See Source »

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