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Word: flusser (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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WHOOPS, DEARIE!?Peter Arno? Simon & Schuster ($1.75). Their weekly parade in the New Yorker (Manhattan smart-chart) has long been an event?Pansy Smiff and Abagail Flusser of the muffs and flounces and awry plumed bonnets, their potato noses high in air, their cavernous, Cruikshankian mouths thrown open in something like...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Whoops Sisters | 5/30/1927 | See Source »

...home, with a zither player, a retired fireman, an orphan oaf called Fester, a man with an elephant, and a Park Avenue dowager for companions, they become heroines of a story of which the dizziness does not compensate for the length. The upshot of the story is that Mrs. Flusser inherits $20,000,000 and the old gals pack up their Sunday stays and hug-me-tights to go and live in style...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Whoops Sisters | 5/30/1927 | See Source »

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