Word: bloomered
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Denouncing the old uniform of bloomer and shirt which has served generations of Radcliffe girls as being "somewhat outmoded," Miss Madden, who is style expert on The News, declares that the new attire combines smartness with economy...
...word bluestocking, coined in 1790, is defined as "a woman with literary tastes or pretensions." As to bloomer (originally the name of a costume consisting of a short skirt and loose trousers gathered around the ankles, later becoming bloomers-), the dictionary says that Mrs. Amelia Bloomer gave it its name, but did not invent it. Explanation: "For some years she edited and published, at Seneca Falls, N. Y., a magazine called The Lily, in which (February, 1851) the new costume appears to have been first mentioned in print...
...Marble Savings Bank's secret could not keep forever. Finally State's Attorney Asa Bloomer of Rutland heard of it. Last June he broke the case wide open by ordering the arrest of former Bookkeeper Cocklin for grand larceny making public the details of the fraud for the first time. He began to intimate that Governor Smith was guilty of at least poor judgment when he failed to hand Bookkeeper Cocklin over to authorities immediately after the fraud was discovered. Vermonters began to wonder if their Governor was not guilty of another error when he failed to raise...
Last week State's Attorney Bloomer was ready to claim that Governor Smith was guilty of more than merely bad judgment. He had him formally charged with misprision of felony (a misdemeanor) for failing to report Bookkeeper Cocklin's crime. While harried Governor Smith was posting a $3,000 bond in Rutland's municipal court, Treasurer Baldwin was over in the county court being sentenced for his part in concealing the crime. Tear-choked County Judge Buttles imposed a fine of $400 against his old friend Lathrop Baldwin, gave him a suspended sentence of from six months...
...outscored her coach, Marie Warmbier. Pretty, buxom Ella Burmeister, a grocery clerk, so excited one male spectator with her nine-game total of 1,683 that he fell off his high perch, broke his ankle. Marge Slogar, 22-year-old Lithuanian who starred at left field on the Cleveland Bloomer Girls' softball championship team last year, swaggered around the alleys in a baseball jacket, shot a 612 singles, had a nine-game total second only to Bowler Burmeister's high mark in the first days of the tournament...