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Word: fattish (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1925-1925
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...frills and furbelows will bedeck their billowing bosoms; no petticoats will swathe their fattish calves; no bushy beards will sway from their chubby chins. No more will they, wearing what-the-gentlemen-will-wear, rush into night clubs. No more will their handsome features peer through a peekhole in a door behind which 200 topers are toping; and no more will their portly bodies enter to find a single toper dizzily sipping ginger beer. No more need wedding guests lifting their bubbling-stemmed glasses to the bride, fear sudden descent of those twain, snatching the twinkling beverage from their lips...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PROHIBITION: Izzy and Moe | 11/23/1925 | See Source »

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