Word: chuzzlewit
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...overrated hypocrite or a great man who actually got his due, Author Kingsmill tries to stir up the dying ripples whereas Author Maurois does his tactful best to pour oil on them. U. S. readers, not because they have read Dickens' vituperative American Notes or Martin Chuzzlewit but because Kingsmill's attack is more convincing than Maurois' defense, will be inclined to agree that Dickens was not all his partisans have cracked...
Died. William ("Willie") Clarkson, 73, famed London wigmaker and costumer; suddenly, after a stroke; in London. When his father, portrayed as "Poll Sweedlepipe" in Charles Dickens' Martin Chuzzlewit, died, Son William, 15, took over the Drury Lane Wiggery. He made wigs for the celebrities of the opera and theatre, masquerade costumes for Europe's crowned heads, the phrase "Wigs by Clarkson" a program fixture...
...immortal novelist who once aroused censure and reproach in the United States for drawing American character with too great exactitude in "Martin Chuzzlewit" has met a similar fate in England. In the Yarmouth town council, it was proposed to name certain highways, Copperfield Avenue, Steerforth Avenue. Peggoty Road, and Barkis Road. One of the more stalwart of the councillors, Jack Salmon, fish salesman by trade, condemned Barkis as a "silly old pup" and a "drunken rascal with a red nose". He spared Steerforth his denunciation only because he did not know the gentleman's reputation...
Stuart P. Sherman - "Since Charles Dickens lashed us in Martin Chuzzlewit and American Notes, no other novelist, English or American, has given us a satirical castigation so thorough or so deserved...
...Wall-Street Gang, and the Sewer's exposure of the Washington Gang, and the Sewer's exclusive account of a flagrant act of dishonesty committed by the Secretary of State when he was eight years old; now communicated, at a great expense, by his own nurse". Martin Chuzzlewit...