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Word: garterless (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Bald Owen Brewster had his own series of events to relate and he spent more than an hour detailing them as Hughes hitched at his garterless socks, drummed his fingers on the arm of his chair, cupped a hand to his deaf ear, and scowled at committee documents which the Senator offered as evidence...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CONGRESS: Duel under the Klieg Lights | 8/18/1947 | See Source »

...tiny, heat-sodden office building of the Cartersville (Ga.) State Prison camp sat Warden Arthur W. Clay: a stocky, tight-lipped man with hair clipped high about his ears, his white shirt open at the neck, his wash trousers hitched up above the garterless white socks...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Georgia's Middle Ages | 9/13/1943 | See Source »

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