Word: bodneheim
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Layman Kittredge, equally well known professor of English, were the two glants of the Syndics, and they made sure that there was no nonsense about profit before (publishing) pleasure. Upon one occasion, when a book had achieved almost miraculous success and was selling with the fervor of a Maxwell Bodneheim epic, Moore stomped into a Syndics' meeting a little late. Physically a tremendous man with a booming voice, he slammed the table with a fist and reared, "Well, by God, it's just as I told You-we should never have accepted the book." Profits seemed almost indecent to these...
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