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Word: brillian (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Author Aden's title is a calculated come-on. The Duchess never finishes the well-known sentence and Author Arlen's advertised salacious spread, of course, proves a Barmecide's feast. His brillian-tined tale tells of a young, beautiful, rich but extremely respectable Duchess, a widow who is a model of propriety to less proper peers and inferiors, and of the ghostly suspicion that falls on her when London becomes the scene of a series of lustful murders...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Amusing Armenian | 10/29/1934 | See Source »

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