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1931, P. G. Wodehouse, 'Big Money', Herbert Jenkins: London, page 195. "A nice girl like you! A girl who has always prided herself on her fastidiousness. A girl who could never understand how other girls in her set could make themselves cheap and let themselves be pawed about—Ugh!" said Conscience witheringly. "Necker!" Ann shuddered. "Yes, Necker!...
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We all ate at the Liberty Grill, and then Bernice and I drove her family's Pontiac upriver, to a hill overlooking Tongue Point, where plenty of neckers were fogging up the windows.
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Our uniform is a green Scout shirt with the Group necker, woggle and badges. The Group necker is half blue, half yellow and worn so that the blue part is on the left, nect to the membership badge.
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It was only as they were doing that that I realised I hadn’t done my own necker. It was as crumpled as it had been when I had taken it off at bedtime. I slipped my woggle off and gave the necker to the Patrol Leader to do.
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