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Word: greenslet (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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Badgered. Robert comes from the Russell-Spence branch of the family, whose most notable member, Great-Great-Grandmother Harriet Traill Spence, seems to have had her kinky side-although no one is quite certain what it was. Family Chronicler Ferris Greenslet writes that the Spences possessed "a certain mystical dreaminess that sometimes obscured the need for immediate action in the small, imperative affairs of daily living." In family privacy, this trait was dignified with a genteel euphemism: it was called "the Spence negligence...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Poets: The Second Chance | 6/2/1967 | See Source »

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