Word: fawning
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Lankester: "The design of the sitter's suit shows dots and blotches as large as buttons. On what loom, one wonders, was such a fabric woven?" About all that the tailor-editor-art critic approved was Artist Oswald Birley's portrait of George V in black jacket, double-breasted fawn waistcoat, grey striped trousers...
...writing of the incomparable HELENA SPRINGER GREEN RASKOB (4 names-count 'em-and how you fellows fawn before wealth) you neglected to state that this prominent member of the nouveau riche is the wife of a man, who after growing rich under Republican regimes and policies, deserted his party SOLELY FOR RELIGIOUS REASONS. His talk about prohibition is THE BUNK. He obeyed his master the pope, in the same way that "Everything" Al would obey that master...
Smartly clad in cool fawn colored lounge suit, soft collared shirt and pastel tie, His Most Catholic Majesty, Alfonso XIII, sprucely returned to Spain last week, refreshed and tingling from a plunge into London's famed "Season...
Conservation Board Accused of Taking Fawn from Child to Make Nomination Fete Gift...
When Governor Smith heard what happened, he said: "If the Conservation Department has taken that spotted fawn [which he had named First Ballot] from a crippled boy, I'll send it back to him so quickly, you won't see it for dust. Yes, I'll send him back another one with it and a dog if he wants...