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Word: yea (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...with chin at an optimistic angle I invite (yea, plead) fan mail. I understand wisdom rules at your school and you all go around wrinkling your cortexes over weighty problems for the good of posterity. Well, at this school (Texas State College for Women, largest girl's school on this globe) the eyelash curler rules and we, all go around fluttering flirtatious furbelows at susceptible Profs. I hear you men all have jaw-breaking vocabularies. Well, we can polish the old apple to perfection--so maybe that makes us even. On the whole, I'll wager Harvard brushes its teeth...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE MAIL | 2/10/1940 | See Source »

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