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Word: mannerless (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...went about grotesquely dressed, carrying a faded umbrella, wearing a ludicrous plug hat. He was mannerless, unkempt, and one wonders if he was not unwashed, in those days of the weekly bath in the foot tub, if a bath was taken at all. [As attorney, for the Illinois Central R. R. he was found] riding about on special trains furnished him and posing as 'Humble Abe Lincoln...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HEROES: Lincolnoclast | 2/16/1931 | See Source »

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