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Word: buffler (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1937-1937
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...spit an' image" be accepted (TIME, Oct. 11), let your readers consider a passage in a 17th Century play. In 1694, Edward Ravenscroft's Canterbury Guests was given its first performance. Scene 2 of Act III is given over to a trumped-up charge against Sir Barnaby Buffler that he is the father of children by two women of unsavory reputation. One of them, Dazie, accuses him as follows...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Nov. 1, 1937 | 11/1/1937 | See Source »

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