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Word: glaucous (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1929-1929
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...other name) Connelly, the traveling nuisance who crashes gates and whose solitary optic is glaucous, lurked by the ringside. Amid such distinguished company he had wished to appear at his best, and, for perhaps the first time in his life, wore a dinner jacket, white gloves, carried a cane. Also, over his non-existent eye, he wore a monocle. The unfortunate thing was that, having scaled the heights of sartorial formality, "One Eye" found that almost all the other gentlemen present were wearing white flannels, dark blue coats...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Big Fight | 3/11/1929 | See Source »

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