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Word: unsnobbish (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1946-1946
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Playing Fields. In Roedean's cloistered life, the girls have few chances to meet outsiders, are apt to give an impression of embarrassed uppityness when they do. Miss Tanner has sought to keep Roedean unsnobbish by banning makeup and jewelry, allowing the girls little pocket money and decreeing a Spartan, uniformed existence. As in most girls' schools in Britain, the girls wear identical Navy jumpers much of the time; they get what individualism they can out of choosing the colors of their suppertime djibbahs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Frightfully Gamesy | 12/2/1946 | See Source »

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