Word: greensick
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Moved to adoration by scatterbrained, widowed Lavinia Brandon's charm were the vicar, his greensick pupil and his middle-aged churchwarden. That their adoration remained dumb was due to Lavinia's blissful inability to concentrate long enough to hear them out. Nevertheless they could try to protect her from each other, from Aunt Sissie's money, from a pesky lady folklorist home from Italy, and from the consequences of her own kind deeds. Only her two grown children appreciated how little protection Lavinia needed. In the end, when her witlessness and her ability to muddle through...
...FRIENDLY TREE-Cecil Day Lewis -Harper ($2.50). A first-novel love story whose greensick sentimentality Poet Lewis' revolutionary U. S. rooters will regret was not obscured in his less telltale verse...
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