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Word: daggers (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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From Dumas to Shellabarger, no significant change has occurred in the plots and protagonists of cloak-&-dagger fiction. Few of the customers who bought a million copies of both Author Shellabarger's Captain from Castile (1945) and Prince of Foxes (1947) would have it any different. Even so, scholarly ex-Princeton Professor Shellabarger gives them a little more than their money's worth. For all its gaudily costumed corn, The King's Cavalier is built on a solid base of research which pays off in such things as a manor house painstakingly reconstructed right down...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Spice & Spectacle | 1/9/1950 | See Source »

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