the italics aren’t mine, bumping over
The italics, by the way, aren’t mine, but
those of some lexicographer puttering about with ₁
our own round-about, puttering route,
bumping over corduroy roads of ₂ fast and stylish, but
she did some puttering and
that cost her a chance of the bigger money ₃
sources :
- Henry R. Ilsley. “Lipstick Shows Class,” The New York Times (Tuesday, April 16, 1929) : 27
more at putterings 630 - Florida Pier, “On Resembling Oneself”
one of her some 165 “The Gentler View” essays that appeared in Harper’s Weekly in the years 1909-13,
this one in the issue of February 12, 1910 (transcription): link
her writings, and (little yet) about : link - from result snippets, at
Patrick F. McManus, “Puttering,” in Real Ponies Don’t Go Oink (1991) : 95-98
more at putterings 628
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