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Word: stickpin (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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Lady Willingdon, brunette, in-clined to plumpness, presented the purser with a diamond stickpin, "on account of the trouble we have given on the way over." Viscount Willingdon, slender, a head taller than his wife, chatted before debarking with Premier King who had come on board as the ship entered the harbor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Canadian Satrap | 10/11/1926 | See Source »

...slumber-babyish. Expression in thought-"gets things done." General expression - extremely married, prosperous. Clothes - standard, brown or gray; white piping in vest. (He would feel naked without fountain pen and silver pencil in vest pocket.) Neck-tie-purple knitted or tapestry with stringless brown harps among blown palms; snakehead stickpin with opal eyes. Jewelry-Boosters' Club lapel button; elk-tooth watch-chain pendant. Spectacles-huge, frameless, with gold ear-crooks. Shoes-black, laced, uninteresting.-ED. Pessimist...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Aug. 16, 1926 | 8/16/1926 | See Source »

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