Word: powderpuff
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...almost nightfall, a firefly hour, blue as milkglass; and birds like arrows swooped together and swept into the folds of trees. Before storms, leaves and flowers appear to burn with a private light, color, and Miss Bobbit, got up in a little white skirt like a powderpuff and with strips of gold-glittering tinsel ribboning her hair, seemed, set against the darkening all around, to contain this illuminated quality . . . She stood that way for a good long while, and Aunt El said it was right smart...
...Cinemactor Herbert Marshall, trying to suave up a farfetched, dreary thriller, "The Man Called X." One of the most expensive of the current whodunits, its script packed the wallop of a powderpuff...
When questioned as to why the smoke of our gasoline fire had not been noticed earlier, Mr. Douglas replied with the typical contempt in which a sailing enthusiast holds "powderpuff" sailing: "We didn't think it unusual-power boats always smoke like that...