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Word: sassiest (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Dyle was launched upon the world. He grew up helter skelter, but at last an empty stomach induced him to try to make a living. So he enlisted as butler in the family of a puisne judge. There he learned to put on style, and as the gayest and sassiest man on the island he became a wooer of the local belle, Jezebel Pettyfer. At this flowing tide of his affairs he lost his position because of an unfortunate argument with his mistress over the disposition of the cadaver of her lamented dog Aristotle. That same night he proposed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: A Barbadoes Gentleman | 12/14/1925 | See Source »

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