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Word: cheesewright (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...board meetings"), twelve-year-old Hon. Edwin Worplesdon (a Boy Scout "who makes you feel that what this country wants is somebody like King Herod"), "Boko" Fittleworth ("a cross between a comedy juggler and a parrot that has been dragged through a hedge backwards"), G. D'Arcy ("Stilton") Cheesewright ("a bloke of furtive aspect"), and Lady Florence Craye ("one of those intellectual girls . . . who are unable to see a male soul without wanting to get behind it and shove"). The plot is an intricate counterpoint of love-at-first-sight, financial skullduggery in shipping circles, and Berty...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Back at the Old Stand | 8/26/1946 | See Source »

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