Word: chesterfieldian
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Hardly less spirited than the Herald Tribune was the Boston Herald: "The President's executive order is an amazing document . . . argumentative, bad-mannered, and offensive. . . . The alleged discourtesy of Colonel Lindbergh in giving out his letter to the President prematurely seems an act of studied, Chesterfieldian deference in comparison...
...knife. Economical Poet Alexander Pope kept copies of his love letters. Baudelaire did Pope one better: sent exact duplicates to two women at once. Pierre Loving tries to explain his hero's complex character thus: "Artifice and stoicism, these were the keys to the unassailable life of the Chesterfieldian martyr and saint...
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