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Word: minikin (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...weeds which she does not like to destroy because she thinks them pretty. In Maman Savage's parlor is a nickel-&-dime bank for contributions to the Ellin Prince Speyer hospital for ani-mals-in memory of her cat, buried in Hartsdale Cemetery beneath a tombstone marked "Our Minikin." Stately and white- haired, Maman Savage wears sombre silks, heavy ornaments, a gold-rimmed pince-nez. But she is as keen-eyed and lively as any youngster, joining gaily in such Metropolitan pranks as tickling fat Tenor Lauritz Melchior in Parsifal. "He is so ticklish! So he always says...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MUSIC: Old Girl | 7/15/1935 | See Source »

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