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Word: brontosaurian (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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Lady Diana has a curious way of making real people seem like Waugh characters,* as she does in the cinematic glimpse of life in the Viceregal Lodge at Simla, where the "brontosaurian" viceroy, the Marquess of Linlithgow, maintained a dur-barlike protocol in the last days of the British raj. The edge was taken off the formality by the sight of His Excellency sidling about the vast building clutching his "catty" (catapult) for shooting crows on the rooftop...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Self-Portrait of a Lady | 12/19/1960 | See Source »

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