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Word: lorded (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...much really. Me writing a book I mean. It isn't as if I had any talent or something. But what's a girl to do. There I was twenty and pear-shaped and daddy a noble lord. Only not a rich one. Lord and Lady Clanmorris are what my parents really are. Only really they are writers too. Named Bingham like me. They live in London. And I couldn't type or do shorthand very well really. So I started this corny book. All about...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Salably Swoony | 5/24/1963 | See Source »

...least it's supposed to be my autobiography. I'm the coronet because daddy is a noble lord. And the weeds are what I call the chinless boys who go to deb dances. It's hell's boring, actually...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Salably Swoony | 5/24/1963 | See Source »

...thing is to sound innocent but almost have sexy adventures. And sound on the inside. Like mentioning that daddy is a noble lord every so often and using plenty of Mayfair slang. I tell how debs get through dull parties by hiding War and Peace in the loo of the Dorchester where the dances are given. But a girl has to have lived or something. Otherwise she'll be a drip. So I thought I'd throw in some sentences like. "Lesbians aren't my swooniest subject." I mean, it came naturally after I had that woman...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Salably Swoony | 5/24/1963 | See Source »

...didn't want to leave anything out. Like the Hunt Ball. You know the hostess looks like a horse and everyone's hell's boring except me. Being a deb was easy because my daddy's a noble lord. Did I mention that? And I did the beatniks too -in Chelsea. Beatniks grunt and look sick and don't wash and scratch a lot, I can tell you, which is killingly funny or something. And what else. Oh yes. A trip to Paris, where I lived with a down-and-out marquis. Mummy says...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Salably Swoony | 5/24/1963 | See Source »

Unless you're an absolute nit you know what kind of a book it is by now. I mean not swoony. But not hell's boring either. I do hope everybody buys it. Daddy's a noble lord you know...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Salably Swoony | 5/24/1963 | See Source »

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