Word: leaguish
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...interested matrons attended the opening. One, who had often been a spectator in courts, was the prosecutor's trim, Junior-Leaguish wife. The other had never attended a trial. She it was who, in 1903 (year after Thomas Edmund Dewey was born in Owosso, Mich.), as the prettiest girl in Tammany's Eleventh District, married an ambitious young Irish blacksmith, James J. Hines. She appeared in court, flanked by her bulky sons and their pretty-girl wives, only because Jimmy Hines was in the worst trouble of his rough-&-tumble career. Like Mrs. Dewey she went...
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