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Word: flier (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...again after my first sober afternoon. If so, I presume I owe you flowers." As he ruefully described the times he was "d.d." (disgustingly drunk) in his letters, Waugh made himself one of his better comic characters: "I got to my train d.d. and it was the Cheltenham Flier full of respectable stockbrokers . . . and I walked down the train picking up all the mens hats and looking inside and saying: 'People who go to such bad hatters shouldn't travel first class.' So I am ashamed to meet any neighbors now." Waugh's journeys from offensiveness...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Beneath the Thorny Carapace | 10/13/1980 | See Source »

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