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Word: featherstonehaugh (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1926-1926
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...those books which, if read in a club car or dentist's waiting room, will cause people to glare at you, pretend to stare out the window and finally move away. Readers realizing that private mirth is a public nuisance will, unless malicious, arrange to meet Stanley Featherstonehaugh Ukridge in some secluded spot. He is a rather large, angular young man with a napping yellow mackintosh, a piercing eye, a jumpy back collar-button and no economic roots in society save vigorous tendrils of loquacity with which he attaches, from dismayed friends, the trifling bits of capital necessary to promote...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FICTION: Tory Tension | 4/19/1926 | See Source »

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