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Word: llareggub (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1960
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...prose is Welsh; he can be language-drunk or sly with bawdry, as Dylan Thomas was when he named the village in Under Milk Wood "Llareggub." As for the roarious Jethro, he is engaging as a boy, but loses credibility as he grows older; he is forever lapsing into derring-do, despite the derring-don'ts of his womenfolk. At the end, he escapes a platoon of dragoons and a mine cave-in, and boards ship for the U.S. Cordell can be counted on to tell more of this lad, who will arrive in the New World in good...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Mixed Fiction, Oct. 24, 1960 | 10/24/1960 | See Source »

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