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Word: pasters (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...message--grown a little stale in the East by now--will never penetrate. There are houses where a copy of the Mercury has never been seen; where mint juleps are still to be obtained, but where, on the other hand, the residents have felt not call to assassinate their paster. There may be found the works of Joseph Addison, a social critic who wrote as a gentleman for other gentlemen, and who will be read is such dark corners long after Mr. Mencken has jostled past St. Peter and gone to inspect the boobs of Paradise...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: KATZENJAMMER KID GOES SOUTH | 2/17/1927 | See Source »

...moleskin the tactics of the late Prussian army; when one line falls he sends up another. To people in the stands at Philadelphia it seemed that every substitute linesman was bigger than the last. But where one had fallen the next fell; Penn, with a swift, irreverent back named Paster Fields, smashed through...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Football: Oct. 25, 1926 | 10/25/1926 | See Source »

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