Word: kiplingo
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Kiplingites will remember with a pleased grin, anti-Kiplingites with a shudder, that very Kiplingesque creature "Mrs. Hauksbee," the hardbitten, hard-headed Anglo-Indian army wife in Plain Tales from the Hills who knew what was what, was fond of uttering scraps of omniscience in scriptural Kiplingo. In English Authoress Ann Bridge's heroine, Mrs. LeRoy, Kipling readers will recognize a perfect re-edition of Mrs. Hauksbee. Mrs. LeRoy, empire-building wife of an oriental expert, has to live at the British Legation at Peking while her children are at school in England. Time: the unpleasant present...
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