Word: drood
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Words announcing the separation an inexplicable offense. Not all Dickensians will agree with Author Leacock that the circumstantial description of Paul Dombey's death is too strong meat for modern literary stomachs; but all should be interested in his ingenious theory of how Dickens meant to finish Edwin Drood. In his concluding pages Biographer Leacock unbosoms himself of sentiments that would have warmed the cheeks of Egotist Dickens: ". . . The name of Dickens has not yet been put where it belongs. Whole courses are devoted to Shakespeare, a man-or a collection of men-of far lesser genius...