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Word: damocletian (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1923-1923
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...lady's tongue, and since from then on it was never still, the brow-beaten husband had the doctor tie it up again. But such benign doctors only lived in the Middle Age or in Shaw's imagination. Therefore the one hope remaining to Phillipsburg is that tht Damocletian sword of suspended sentence will shortly fall and that the minions of the law with cotton-stuffed ears, will hail this Xantippe to some wild and lonely tower...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE TAMING OF THE SHREW | 10/26/1923 | See Source »

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