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Word: buttonhook (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1946-1946
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...Fashioned Buttonhook. But the visiting salesmen and neighbors were some compensation. There was the local abortionist who came up when news of Author MacDonald's being " 'that way' went the rounds of the mountains and valleys along with the news about the contagious abortion in the Helwig herd of Jerseys and the impotency of the Green bull." " 'Drop up some evening with six dollars,'" said the abortionist, " 'and I'll fix you good as new. . . . Took care of Mrs. Smith when she was six months along and got rid of three...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Scrawk! | 3/4/1946 | See Source »

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