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Word: floss (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...black, red, cream, chinchilla, silver, smoke and brown toms and tabbies. Judges pulled fur, pried open eyes, thumped sides, tabulated their conclusions. Best cat in the show: Lavender Choice of Runnymede. blue male. Best of opposite sex: Pansy 0-So-Bonne, blue-eyed white. Best novice: Saxby Silver Miss Floss. Best novice of opposite sex: Ming Quong Gam Sing Quah, Siamese male. Best two kittens: North-ledge Desperado, Azurine Allure of Silver-land...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Animals: Fish, Flesh & Fowl | 12/2/1929 | See Source »

...Frances Hammond (I think) in Snappy Stories in August, 1923. The latter was a genuinely fine piece of literature, and it is too bad that its subject matter condemned it to a magazine much looked down upon. It's title was "The Souvenir." In The Mill on the Floss George Eliot says: "I speak to those who have felt the delicious resistance of hair to shears," or words to that effect. I wonder if she, too, was a fetichist...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Able Allen | 7/15/1929 | See Source »

HARVARDN and G Frothingham, l.w.r.w., Cutler, Whipple Davis, Armstrong, Howland, C. C., Summers Hallowell, Rowland, Burlingame, r.w.l.W., Baker, Floss Mills, l.d.r.d., Stoneman Shearer, r.d.l.d., Gerard, Cassidy Trask, R.R., Reece...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: NOBLE AND GREENOUGH BOWS TO SECOND UNIVERSITY SIX | 1/15/1929 | See Source »

...religious nature. She loved the past, and the old life of England, and yet she was one of the first, as she remains one of the greatest, of realists; for she saw through the green and sunny surface of country life to the wretchedness beneath. "The Mill on the Floss" and "Adam Bede", dealing with English life an with people whom the author knew, are analyzed clearly in Miss Haldane's book, and recommended as the best for the casual reader whose acquaince is limited to "Silas Marner...

Author: By A. T. Robertson ., | Title: GEORGE ELIOT AND HER TIMES. By Elizabeth S. Haldane. Appleton and Co., New York, 1927. $3.50. | 5/16/1927 | See Source »

This year's Production Committee consists of W. E. Trevett '27, in charge of the Art Department; Edward Baur '27, Stage Department; C. D. Lowing '28, Costumes; K. D. Floss '27, Electrical Department; G. B. Bingham '28, Acting; C. H. Johnston '27, Subscriptions; and E. W. Gross '27, Publicity...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Dramatic Club Begins Activities | 11/1/1926 | See Source »

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