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Word: sylphs (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...fortnight ago Secretary of the Navy Adams ordered scrapped or sold his official yacht, the 31-year-old Sylph. Bought for $50,000 in 1898, she is now too decrepit to repair. Secretary Adams has yachts...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Yachts | 4/1/1929 | See Source »

...chorus. This chorus is Good. They can ogle an eye, trip a measure, swing a neat ankle and sing. The girls are sylph-like in their gracefulness, like a swarm of butterflies winging o'er a clover field. The boys are stalwart and sturdy, dressed in their 50-pound suits of armor. If they don't always look happy, think how you'd feel black-bottoming in full matching equipment and looking for all the world like a King Arthur Flour...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Red-Headed Queen Features in Eighty-First Annual Pudding Riot--Chorus is Sylph-Like | 4/7/1927 | See Source »

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