Word: loquendi
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...striped pants, a wing collar, a spade-tailed coat, and nose glasses leashed with yards of black, fluttering ribbon. He rolled out his words with infinite relish. "My faults," he cried, "are obvious. There can be no doubt I have my full share. I suffer from cacoëthes loquendi, a mania or itch for talking, from vanity and morbidity, and, as is obvious to everyone who knows me, an inborn, an inveterate flair for histrionics." Democrat Henry Fountain Ashurst was off on one of the orations that were the delight of the Senate from...
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