Word: backfisch
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Burton was a cross between Byron and Major Hoople-a proud, fierce, foolish, gifted man with one streak of true genius -a genius for failure. Isabel, like her husband, was a rebel, but of a far more conventional sort. Her rebelliousness began like the romantic dreams of any English Backfisch; it was her great distinction that she stuck by them. And her dreams, after a fashion, stuck...
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