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Word: handbasin (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...brittle bones-and FitzGibbon reports that his mother nursed every minor symptom into a major illness. In bed or out, he soon became a brat. He stole candy from the corner store, smoked cigars in the local cinema, spied on the nursemaid while she washed her breasts in a handbasin. However, he was a precocious brat. His father, an English teacher, bellowed scenes from Shakespeare at the huge-eyed child while he was still in swaddlings, and when he was eight or nine he began to write poems...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Pintpot Pan | 10/29/1965 | See Source »

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