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Word: grimbley (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1957-1957
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...system [containing the best points of] democratic, monarchic, ecclesiastic, Communist and fascist [societies]." Before the fun is over, the story introduces such British supporting players as a callow youth who wants to be "worldlywise like Mr. Somerset Maugham," bounding Newspaperman Wyvell Speen, and a goonlike consular official called Waldo Grimbley, who is delighted when Elaine Brent lands in jail, because he thinks her imprisonment may be used as "a pretext for taking over the bloody country again...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Rose in No Man's Land | 8/5/1957 | See Source »

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