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Word: harlequins (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1942-1942
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Oldtime GOPoliticos did not quite know what to make of this new-and nicer-political face as Convention Keynoter Boothe stood before the microphone, slim and cool in a black silk dress, occasionally gesturing gently with a pair of blue-rimmed harlequin spectacles. (Murmured one: "She can even wear glasses!") As keynoter of the Connecticut convention, she clearly stated her concern with the terrible necessity of making democracy work in the middle of the war-to-end-civilization, and the editors who saw that she had ably stated the general concerns of many citizens reprinted here & there her text...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: U.S. At War: New Face | 9/21/1942 | See Source »

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