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Word: gingerish (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1956-1956
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Gracie Was a Lady. She met Harry Sinclair Lewis after he had come to Manhattan from his native Sauk Center, Minn., via Yale. It happened in 1912 when young Hal-his friends called him "Red" for his thin, gingerish thatch-saw a lady across a tearoom. It was Grace Hegger, daughter of a Catholic German-American art dealer. She had golden hair, a job on Vogue, and she brought out the romantic in Hal, who wrote her some of the goofiest poetry boy ever wrote girl...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Carol Kennicott's Story | 9/17/1956 | See Source »

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