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Word: shaggiest (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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Marshal Josef Pilsudski, in his youth the shaggiest of rampant Socialists, later the organizer of armies which freed Poland during the World War, at present Dictator, Premier and War Minister of the Polish Republic, began seriously to consider last week whether a crown would not well become his politically feverish brow...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POLAND: Pilsudski Playful | 11/15/1926 | See Source »

...ferocious in appearance is Leonor Fresnel Loree, the shaggiest of high railroad executives, that when he makes his rare appearance "hair, mustache and beard awry, thick, bushy brows slanting up from his heavy-lidded eyes" at the New Jersey College for Women or at Rutgers, the young people are always startled. He is a trustee of these institutions, one of the several railroad masters to take interest in academic affairs (see EDUCATION...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: L. F. Loree | 5/3/1926 | See Source »

...tricky simile, he falls on his face. He marches confidently to bat and takes a prodigious clout at literary emphasis with his infinitive. The infinitive splits and the emphasis falls badly foul over by the water cooler. As a writer Mr. McGraw will remain in the shaggiest bush league...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: McGraw's Book* | 5/28/1923 | See Source »

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