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1939 Summer Straw Spectacular

rlk

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Fletch

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There's so much lost vocabulary here - terms that probably never meant anything to the man in the street. Baku? Hanoki? Leghorn? Peanit (sic)? Toyo Bangkok?

Also notice the number of porkpies – not one of which is called a porkpie. Was the term even in use yet?
 

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