Word: charn
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...ways. Boswell is often thought of as the man who knew Dr. Johnson best. But that is not so. Boswell was a first-hand reporter of only one period of Garrick's actresses excited his amorous propensities. Johnson's career-when he had already become the Great Charn of English letters. Though Boswell's Johnson is a very human figure he is a full-fledged prodigy. Kingsmill successfully attempts to humanize him further...