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Word: brusquer (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...death at Khartoum in 1885, Queen Victoria "had difficulty in speaking." "How shall I ... express what I feel? . . . grief inexpressible!" she wrote the hero's sister. "Indeed, it has made me ill! My heart bleeds. . ." At the time-and for decades afterwards-Poet Arthur Rimbaud's brusquer comment, "Gordon est un idiot," represented the opinion of none but Poet Arthur Rimbaud...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: In a Terrible Country | 5/31/1954 | See Source »

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