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Word: skirtsful (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Mayor Hartsfield urged every Atlanta woman and maid to put on hoop skirts and pantalets, appealed to every Atlanta male to don tight trousers and a beaver, sprout a goatee, sideburns and Kentucky colonel whiskers. He also requested citizens not to tear off the clothes of visiting movie stars, as...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: G With the W | 12/25/1939 | See Source »

But never will King John ride in tin-crowned glory up the Street of the old Rampart Last week, at 47, John Metoyer died. At the Brown Bomber the mourning Zulus gathered, planned a proper funeral with five bands, pallbearers in Mardi Gras skirts of grass, and all the Zulu...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LOUISIANA: Coconuts | 12/4/1939 | See Source »

In Harlem, Satchelmouth announced that he could not go to the funeral. "Poor John," he mourned, "he was a great guy." Poor John's relatives announced that they and not the Zulu Social Aid and Pleasure Club were running this funeral, reduced it to a respectable affair with only...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LOUISIANA: Coconuts | 12/4/1939 | See Source »

>Skirts range from a conservative two inches below the knee to a little above it, which Vassarites "seem to love." Duke and Purdue reported no above-the-knee skirts at all.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Calves, Knees, Waists | 11/27/1939 | See Source »

> Slacks, grey flannel or corduroy, are popular at Vassar, Smith, Sarah Lawrence, are forbidden at Wellesley and Duke. Purdue co-eds like jersey culottes (pants disguised as skirts).

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Calves, Knees, Waists | 11/27/1939 | See Source »

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