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Word: lene (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Innocent Eye. Hélene Noris is a lonely, wide-eyed girl with her snub nose pressed flat against the windowpane of life. Her widowed father is a stuffy businessman parceling his time between his shops, his stocks and his political ambitions. When Hélene wanders to the kitchen for companionship, the maid shoos her out, tells her: "Masters are masters and servants are servants! Society makes these rules." To give her life a dash of drama, Hélene pretends, when in school, not to know her lessons-just to hear her classmates titter and her teachers upbraid...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Counterfeit Love | 10/13/1952 | See Source »

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