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Word: petticoat (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...preaching proceeds, Fortune played pinochle with fat and red-haired Mrs. Lucy Gurget. Dressed in a red flannel petticoat, yellow blouse and beribboned bonnet with improbable cherries that rattled to her constant laughter, Mrs. Gurget "cooked" for Mr. Solomon Tinkle, basked on the deck of his boat...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Phase | 3/25/1929 | See Source »

...absolute antithesis between Christ and Mexitl?peace and war?is all the more striking because of their resemblance in one important respect. Historian Torquemada, in his Monarchia Indiana, wrote it down that "A woman named Coatlicue or Snake-petticoat [the mother of Mexitl] . . . one day . . . saw a little ball of feathers floating down to her through the air, which she taking . . . found herself in a short time pregnant. . . . Then immediately [Mexitl] was born, fully armed . . . and held as a god, born of a mother without a father?as the great God of Battles...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MEXICO: Again, Mexitl | 3/18/1929 | See Source »

MISS EARHART STULTZ GORDON BURRY BASIN WALES (COLLECT) IF YOU NEED IT ANY NEW SUITS SEE MY FRIENDS JULES ROSENWEIN AND MOE EINSTEIN PETTICOAT LANE STOP MENTION MY NAME STOP FIRST CLASS GOODS STOP YOU CANT GO WRONG STOP

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Boulevardier | 8/13/1928 | See Source »

...Giggleswick little boys know that Scotland Yard has been rocked by scandalous exposures (TIME, July 16) and that the weighty War prestige of Lord Byng is counted on to steady matters down. Especially do naughty little Giggleswickers know about Miss Irene Savidge, who was made to show her pink petticoat in the course of a Scotland Yard Third Degree which caused the scandal to break. With a rousing, boyish cheer the Giggleswickers greeted great Viscount Byng of Vimy. At 65 some men have grown a little old, querulous and malapropian but Hero Byng would speak inspiring words. Soon his address...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Funny Old Things | 8/6/1928 | See Source »

Inspector Collins denied that he had threatened, admitted that he had called Miss Savidge "Irene," said that she had asked for cigarets herself, swore that she had voluntarily stood up to show her pink petticoat, and denied asking Miss Savidge if she had ever...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Fancies into Facts | 7/16/1928 | See Source »

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