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Word: lubberland (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1960
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...parrot, whose eponymous cry seems to her a command to leave the provincial, semisavage, secondhand and second-rate life of a British African colony for the authentic glories of historic England. Alas, her dreams are of a "land that was not, that is passed away"-the Rupert Brooke-ish Lubberland where the church clock stands at ten to 3, and there is honey still for tea, where life is a vision of white flannels on a vicarage lawn, and the Guard is always being changed but never for the worse...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Confidence Trickster | 11/14/1960 | See Source »

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