Word: guess
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...paying sixpence one was entitled to guess the names of a boy doll and a girl doll; and if one guessed both names correctly one might take the midgets home. Clearly this was no "lottery," this was not "gambling," and so Mrs. Baldwin took a sixpence from her purse and laid it charitably on the counter...
...guess," she smiled, "I could never guess their names in the wide world. I'm not clever at guessing," and the Prime Minister's wife passed...
...Baldwin!" cried the attendant at the doll booth, "You must guess. Please, you really must!" and the eyes of the attendant, a blooming, wholesome girl, twinkled, danced...
...Very well, my dear," said the Lady of Downing Street, "I really cannot guess, but we'll say their names are the same as my husband's and my own, 'Stanley' and 'Lucy...
...They are! They are!" cried the dancing-eyed girl. "We named them 'specially, and I knew you'd guess...