Word: dumfounding
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...solar plexus," said D. H. Lawrence). Dead & gone are many a writer, artist, anarchist, psychiatrist, birth-controller who enlivened that salon -Big Bill Haywood, John Reed, Isadora Duncan, Arthur Brisbane, Lincoln Steffens, Amy Lowell, Edwin Arlington Robinson. On the site where Mabel once "proceeded to startle, delight and dumfound the town," where she "caught men between the eyes, held them magnetized, fascinated, charmed, as men will be by the allure of a woman's lively calling essence" - nothing now remains to mark the spot except a gaping excavation...
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