Word: billiousness
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Dates: during 1933-1933
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...Undergoing the rigors of a Manhattan dress-fitting one day she suddenly keeled over. Afterwards she admitted to her diary: "I always wanted to faint once, just to know how it felt; & it is very nasty; however heroines always faint, but authors never say it is because they are billious." This mysterious "billiousness" took her out of a fashionable Manhattan finishing school, sent her to European watering-places and seaside resorts (always fashionable places, however, where shoals of eligible young U. S. bachelors danced constant attendance), finally turned into a throat inflammation that carried...
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