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Word: smugglers (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...first setting is a large room, whose walls are of rough, heavy plaster; the next is the stronghold of a smuggler band; and the last an ancient, tropical garden. The color scheme of the sets becomes more striking, until the garden furnishes a brilliant climax in bright orange and violet. Restrained realism is the purpose throughout...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: OENSLAGER AGAIN CHOSEN TO EXECUTE 47 WORKSHOP DESIGNS | 1/10/1923 | See Source »

...equivocal character; one of those nondescript animals of the ocean that are neither fish, flesh, nor fowl . . . . somewhat of a trader, something more of a smuggler, with a considerable dash of the pickaroon . . . this cutpurse of the ocean...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: COMMENT | 6/23/1922 | See Source »

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