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Word: flam (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...merry games his father used to play with him; games in which Daisy was a little rabbit and his father was a big blue bear. When Daisy was a tiny child his father wrote him a letter about "the old blue bear, the lion, the elephant, and the flim-flam and the cata-maran." Through all his life, with the weakness of one whose childhood has been too happy, he found no other companions whom he loved so well as these. At the time of his death he was separated from his wife, his two children...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: Sep. 19, 1927 | 9/19/1927 | See Source »

...without relief that members of the University will read that the property at the corner of Mount Auburn and Holyoke streets has fallen into friendly hands, and observe that the once-flam boyant sign announcing the erection of a "Roosevelt Hotel" on that site has been removed...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: OBSTACLES REMOVED | 5/11/1925 | See Source »

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