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Word: chesterfieldian (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Government by Insult | 3/5/1934 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Baudelaire with Loving Care* | 2/16/1931 | See Source »

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