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Word: dornkey (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...What Sort Big Dornkey?" The sights and sounds of civilization brought murmurs of comparison. On Tristan, fish oil lights the lamps. The diet is fish and potatoes, augmented sometimes by albatross and penguin eggs. Now the six men looked into the kaleidoscope of a lighted city. They ate ice cream doused with brandy. They gazed at autos. Murmured balding, long-nosed Gordon Glass* at his first glimpse of one: "A most wunnerful movement." At his first sight of a horse: "What sort big dornkey is that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TRISTAN DA CUNHA: Us Gets Tired of Us | 2/16/1948 | See Source »

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