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Word: gam (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...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 »

Sued for Divorce. "Nicky" Arnstein, famed bond-thief and gam- bling-house-man, by Actress Fanny Brice. For years she sang a song, Mon Homme, with the line, "For whatever my man is, I am his forevermore...

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

Coach Wachter has the candidates for the University basketball five practicing daily for the opening gam...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Winter Sports Replace Football as College Athletic Activity--Hockey and Board Track Start Work Today | 11/29/1926 | See Source »

While attacking American English becomes one of the standard duties of distinguished guests, an English professor has risen to the defense of the cockney used by Mrs. Gam and Samuel Weller. Instead of being the immorial personifications of London's proletarial, both spoke in the purest English style, which a few centurles earlier would have been positively patrician...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: "WELWETS, WACABONDS, AND VOMAN" | 5/25/1922 | See Source »

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