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Word: skeeters (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...University's latest admirer is none other than Miss Olivia "Skeeter" Mathews, of Dedham. Formerly prominent in society, she began to be bored with its "petty functions," and turned to aviation as a diversion. Before long she had become so absorbed in it that even dances lost their pristine appeal...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: FLYER FLAPPER FLAYS FOPS WHO HAIL FROM HARVARD | 3/25/1929 | See Source »

...casting is excellent throughout: unquestionably it would have been a dreary evening otherwise. Thomas Mitchell and Anne Brewer are capable and convincing in the leading roles, but the laurels go to Edwin Lewis Phillips, who plays, and admirably, the "Skeeter" of the old days...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE CRIMSON PLAYGOER | 10/27/1926 | See Source »

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