Word: malapert
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Dates: during 1928-1928
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...swore she preferred making the complete and perfect web of brilliant silks. Athene promised to teach her, and repented when the pupil surpassed her instructress in talent and conception-dangerous impertinence. Her prosaic lover defined romance as "uncomfortable and dangerous things happening to someone else," but Arachne's malapert masterpiece was a nevertheless romantic tapestry of gods and their foibles. To Athene's vengeful annoyance, a jury of immortals promptly, indifferently, judged it superior to the goddess's weaving, and spent the hour allotted them for solemn decision in Babbitt discussion of the relative merits of liquors...
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