Word: kleptomaniac
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Trouble was that the girl friend had a sister, as cute a kleptomaniac as ever lifted a handbag. When Ben first saw her he simply said: "You're bad." She "licked her lips," and answered: "You're bad, too." "We're both bad," said Ben happily and switched sisters...
There he sat at table with a broken-down laboratory assistant, a lavender college student, a mousy-genteel kleptomaniac widow, a moth-eaten elocutionist, a stale bibliophile who dismissed all ideas with "forgive my sense of humor"—a gallery which should convince almost everybody that Wells, like Dickens, is no caricaturist of English life but a dispenser of literal and horrifying truth. And there Teddy ran foul of two "overripe virgins," bleached Miss Blame and malapropist Miss Birkenhead, who once spent six months in Paris, calls her Paris sugar daddy her faux...