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Word: sluefoot (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1941-1941
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Into a palmy Bombay hotel purrs Mr. Gable, mustachios akimbo. He is a high-hat English jewel thief posing as a Lloyd's of London sluefoot. Behind him undulates Rosalind Russell, clad in a white hat the size of a Syrian water wheel. She, too, is a gem thief, but posing as a baroness. One look at her and Actor Gable begins leering, ogling, wriggling his mustaches. It is Empire Day and the two carat-coppers are, unknown to each other, after a very heavy stone named the Star of Asia, which customarily swings from the wrinkled neck...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The New Pictures, Jul. 21, 1941 | 7/21/1941 | See Source »

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