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Word: guileless (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Melancholy Dane, the Viking of Jutland poses as insane (only more so), murders his stepfather. But the Viking Hamlet was big, blond and extrovert. He did not see his father's ghost. He killed not only his stepfather, but all his stepfather's courtiers. He married a guileless English princess, abandoned her for a bloodthirsty, hawknosed hank of hair, thereby starting a sequence of murders which ends only when his Amazon has his head chopped...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Recent & Readable: Jan. 29, 1940 | 1/29/1940 | See Source »

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