Word: carbuncular
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...former volumes Sinclair's characters, skipping here & there like grass hoppers on a hot stove, managed to be present at practically every important event of their century up to the Wall Street crash of '29. Now (1930-34), as the world's disease narrows its carbuncular focus in Germany, Sinclair narrows his, too - though never to the exclusion of the view that the responsibility for Naziism is as broad as the surface of the planet. He manages to whip in a good deal of data on the U.S., England, France; on such symptomatic side shows...