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Word: packthread (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...needy shop a tortoise hung, An alligator stuff'd, and other skins Of ill-shaped fishes; and about his shelves A beggarly account of empty boxes, Green earthen pots, bladders and mustyseeds, Remnants of packthread and old cakes of roses, Were thinly scatter'd, to make up a show. . . . Goods, Chattels. Before the New York Court of Appeals came the case of a man who wanted to sue another man for alienating his wife's affections and criminal conversation (adultery). The case (Hanfgarn v. Mark) had been appealed to test two phases of New York...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Law: Bard Cited | 5/10/1937 | See Source »

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