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Word: heelless (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1936-1936
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...city limits, the horse-racing and card-playing that provided most of the entertainment for Washington dwellers, the strange mixture of physical discomfort and intellectual vitality that characterized the Capital's society. There the 58-year-old Jefferson, scandalizing British Minister Merry by receiving him in comfortable, heelless slippers, created an international sensation when he dispensed with precedents at State functions. The relationship of Mrs. Merry to Irish Poet Tom Moore, the amours of Captain Zebulon Pike, discoverer of Pike's Peak, the marriage of Jerome Bonaparte to Betsy Patterson of Baltimore, the domestic difficulties of the French...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Decline in Detail | 9/7/1936 | See Source »

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