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Word: pecans (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1928-1928
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...will see familiar filling stations, hot dogs, kewpie dolls, cigaret signboards, and a thousand explor ers who will say with him: "Well, the traffic sure is heavy" Perhaps he stalks into a drugstore bar on the way home, puts his foot on the rail, demands a double-chocolate-marshmallow-pecan sundae and a chicken-liver sandwich. Before supper he reads the fortnightly crime ofthe "crime of the century" in his favorite newspaper.* That the night, dressed in heroic robes, he enters the oaken door of a temple and becomes Sir Knight Errant of the Mystic Order of Granada. Sunday...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Band Wagon | 2/27/1928 | See Source »

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