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Word: cornforth (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Usage:

Most horrifying of all (to a novelist), Pinfold hears a man called Clutton-Cornforth reviewing his books on the BBC: "The basic qualities of a Pinfold novel . . . may be enumerated thus: conventionality of plot; falseness of characterization; morbid sentimentality; gross and hackneyed farce alternating with grosser and more hackneyed melodrama; cloying religiosity...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Self-inflicted Satire | 8/12/1957 | See Source »

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