Word: sashweight
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...being stranger than fiction, but there can be little doubt that that honor was ill-deserved. From back pages of the daily journals, from "Whiz Bang", from the over-fertilized imaginations of the presumably witty, come combinations of words rarely before encountered. "Men Without Women", "Judd, Ruth and the Sashweight", "Browning and Three Peaches", just growed for the occasion. They could not have had a prior raison d'etre and we trust will sink into that impenetrable oblivion which we feel sure awaits them...
...scarcely be passed off as just one of those things. The columns devoted to the private life, if they may be said to possess any, of Joseph Eugene and William Harrison might, it is true, prove any number of nasty things about modern journalism but any murder trial, or sashweight session would do and has done the same only moreso. One must go deeper; one must even go, as the criminal lawyers have it, to the facts--and then, that accomplished, where...
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