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Word: saucebox (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Taking mamma's advice to heart, Shamela is soon playing the untouchable so prettily that she sends the squire's temper as well as his temperature up, and he goes around raging, "Hussy, Slut, Saucebox, Boldface-come hither!" Shamela takes to her bedroom instead, but carefully leaves the door unlatched (Pamela always locked hers). When Pamela's door was forced, she would faint dead away, but when the squire comes "pit a pat into [Shamela's] Room in his Shirt," Sham flashes some impromptu but effective jujitsu...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Pamela, Shamela | 12/14/1953 | See Source »

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