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Word: skeltered (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...friendly-like" to Panama. But she left the boy at the water's edge with the remark, "Dere is plenty of bananas and yams and things in B'bayados, also fowls." So Young Jehu Sennacherib 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...

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

Dublin was raided by a band of Republicans in the busiest hour of the day. Shots were exchanged between the raiders and the Free State troops, causing the people to run "helter-skelter for shelter." Ten casualties are reported; no one was killed. The attack was launched against the Income Tax Office, whose officials have shown great activity in rounding up defaulters...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Irish Pot-Pourri | 3/3/1923 | See Source »

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