Word: ayah
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Dates: during 1951-1951
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...write any poem referring to Emily-colored hands," hissed Miss Sitwell by post the following week. Other contributors meanwhile speculated on Emily as a color. "Mauve," said one. "Yellow," said another. "The only Emily I ever met was an enormous black Madrassi ayah," wrote a Mr. Mclntyre. "I regret his limited social opportunities," answered Miss Sitwell, "but I cannot be held responsible for them." One phase of the argument was at last tied down when a schoolmistress named Josephine Malone reported a mistake in a sixth-form handbook of poetry, in which the editor had fastened Emily-colored hands...