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Word: spotlessness (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...first metallic booming fills the morning air, a taxi slithers rudely along the curb, and an elderly gentleman disembarks. His frock coat is spotless and lately pressed, although it no longer accomodates his increasing girth with the proper tailored case. If the warm spring breeze should rustle his coat tails the gardenia vendor on the opposite curb would notice that the back of the gentleman's trousers has a guilty sheen, but mercifully, there is no such mischievous breeze. The cab fare amounts to 75 cents, and the gentleman hands the driver a dollar. He is embarassed to hold...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Vagabond | 4/16/1938 | See Source »

...Spotless Panay...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jan. 17, 1938 | 1/17/1938 | See Source »

Another skit named important Boston officials as proprietors of a laundry that turned out clothing "as spotless as Revere...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: WILL THREE BOTTLE LABELS GET SCHOLARSHIP IN 1987? | 12/6/1937 | See Source »

Automat Manager James Levy, who prides himself on his spotless kitchen, had the pickets arrested for criminal libel...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LABOR: Libel | 9/27/1937 | See Source »

...academic year 1935-36. His English 2 "Shakspere: Six Plays" was one of the most famous courses in the country, and the examination with its long memory question and its 60 to 70 "spot" passages was terror of many finals and mid-years. Professor Kittredge with his spotless beard, and his pearl gray flannel, and his glasses that flew up the lapel to their hanger with never a hitch, and his injunctions against coughing, has devoted this last year to the production of a work containing the lest known text of all the plays of Shakspere. He is frequently seen...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Class of 1941, Born Too Late, Will Miss Three of Harvard's Great Traditions | 9/24/1937 | See Source »

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