Word: fancier
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...overly emphasizes the fancier grips of the wrestling fraternity, Boston stresses fundamentals. Says he: "If they only know two good holds, I'll put a team on the mat that can go nine minutes without dying from over-exertion...
...organ music almost drowned a faintly ominous message from Reno: June divorces were bigger, better and fancier than ever...
Heinrich Himmler had token representation among U.S. dogs. A fancier of the rare Münsterlander bird dog, he left a kennelful; two of them were bought by a U.S. Army captain, and one of them was in a Manhattan pet hospital last week recovering from distemper...
...very special kind of innocence on somebody's part. There is some straight history in the book, some of it of first interest. But not since the days of Quincy Howe's England Expects Every American To Do His Duty has anyone tried to tie a fancier assortment of knots in the British lion's tail. Stalin and Molotov could hardly have made a balder plea for the U.S. to ditch the British...
...topflight nightclub entertainers. The artists who immortalized Kiki's curves in oil and marble sometimes forgot to pay her, and Kiki never cared. Unconcerned, she tramped the streets in a threadbare overcoat and man's hat and some artist's castoff shoes. Later, in fancier finery, Kiki lounged in the wicker chairs at the Cafe du Dome or sang in her Pernod-husky voice ("I could never sing if I was sober") at the two-by-four cabaret called the Jockey Club...