Word: clamtrap
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...Style in which these lives and episodes are related and the settings of chivalric South Carolina worked up behind them do vast credit to their author. The dialogue, especially the ejaculations ("By cock and pye!", "Shut your clamtrap!", "A real, spang beauty!") are as racy and robustious as the points of honor are delicately sharpened, polished and thrust home. Author Minnigerode, master of informal biography (The Fabulous Forties, Lives and Times, Aaron Burr, Some American Ladies) has outdone himself in a piece of biographical fiction second to none this season...
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