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Word: rebust (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...aristocrat. That follow lived hard, died young, and rode to the Devil with the rest, fleeing before the window smashing that paved the way for our present commercial leisure class. His diaphanous lady has also gone the way of more flesh, and into her place swings the rebust, long-limbed woman of our time, with a figure for health and a comradely eye for a horse. Literature falters before her baffling smile, and the sad young men are troubled. To those confirmed in the opinion that the classic chastity is of Diana a result, not a cause, this development must...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: BEACON HILL SPEAKS | 10/30/1931 | See Source »

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