Word: conspuez
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Dates: during 1924-1924
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...somewhere in the depths of his soul a sour-grapes complex, Balzac, for example, receives the Prix d'Excellence for six heroines adored anywhere between forty and forty-seven, and for one beloved at fifty-five. Any author who has a candidate over thirty receives a Good Mark, but conspuez those arrant sentimentalists whose damsels begin counting their scalps at the unripe age of eighteen and even less...
Printed as one of the planks on a CRIMSON "platform" poster set high on the walls of the office so that all who run may read are the words "Conspuez the Advocate". Truely, a barbarous suggestion clothed in barbarous language, indicative of an era of less kindly feeling! That the Advocate has never taken offense thereat must be due to the fact that it has never read, and this, perhaps, because it has never...
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