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Word: knicker (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...portrait of George Jackson, retired Leverett House janitor, was presented to the House last night by the artist, Keith Martin, one-time Rabbit and husband of Barbara Madden, leading lady of "Knicker-bocker Holiday." The occasion was a House dinner given in honor of Jackson...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: PORTRAIT OF JACKSON GIVEN AT LEVERETT HOUSE DINNER | 1/11/1939 | See Source »

...book is a collection of three essays first published between the years 1915 and 1927. The last two merely develop and claborate the contral thesis introduced in the first, "America's Coming-Of-Age." In the first year of the war Mr. Brooks found the United States still in Knicker-bockers, although tall for its ago. The present year of grace, by his standards, would mark America's first long trousors, while still enjoying the adolescentpains of adjustment and still, perhaps, in a state of arrested development, Certainly America, still by Mr. Brook's standards, has not yet come...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Crimson Bookshelf | 6/4/1934 | See Source »

...Bobby Jones: the Walker Cup matches at St. George's, Sandwich, England, 10 points to 2, losing only one twosome and one foursome. The English have never won a Walker Cup series since the trophy was put in competition (1922). Dressed in a red and brown tweed knicker suit, the Prince of Wales watched the matches, chatted with the players, imitated with satirical intention the waddle of a flat-footed British galleryite, went down on hands and knees an front of the gallery to see the putting better, chewed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Who Won May 26, 1930 | 5/26/1930 | See Source »

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