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Word: hoaxmistress (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...intended to become a Brazilian citizen. She built herself a brick house on a beach clearing backed by jungle, had herself appointed district nurse. One of her accomplishments was installing, as a sanitary measure, cement floors in the thatched-roof huts of the natives. In Rio de Janeiro, Hoaxmistress Lowell said she ministered so well to the natives they named her "Donna Joan, the Miracle Woman...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Sep. 6, 1937 | 9/6/1937 | See Source »

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