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Word: piebald (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Usage:

...Manhattan, a group of comic-strip addicts formed the American Society for the Advancement of the Piebald Eyeball, solemnly pledged themselves always to pencil dots in the center of Little Orphan Annie's eyes before turning to the sports page...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MANNERS & MORALS: Americana, Jun. 2, 1947 | 6/2/1947 | See Source »

...Holford Square house in which he had once lived. Since then, the dead-white bust on its red marble base has had nary a moment's peace. Time & again it has been defaced-once with black paint of such tenacity that the slyly benign features remained permanently piebald...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Noblesse Oblige | 4/1/1946 | See Source »

...Gather, piebald legions of every faith or none

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Whose War? | 9/15/1941 | See Source »

...Book Four Flem returns from Texas with a string of insanely wild piebald ponies and sells them to his neighbors. They break loose in horrendous slapstick and pervade the countryside. Mink gets a life sentence; Cousin Flem doesn't lift a finger to help him. Two bourgeois and a desperate peasant invest all they have in a plot of land where Civil War treasure is known to be buried. They find Flem has hoodwinked them as he has everyone else. When last seen, Flem is on his way to larger operations in Jefferson...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Genius- | 4/1/1940 | See Source »

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