Word: hammock
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...time belle of the factory district. She spent her time in doing her best to imitate in dress, manners and looks the fashionable ladies she read about in the society columns. She even managed to build an imitation pergola in the back yard and swung there, in a Gloucester hammock, hoping, for a duke. She had an insatiable instinct for what people with private incomes like to call "nice things." When Stephen came along, he checked completely with all her aspirations. They fell in love and were married...