Word: marghanita
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...search of references to their assigned words. Some of the readers worked for nothing, while most freelanced for about $1 an hour. The oldest was a cleric in his 90s who is also listed as a contributor to the first O.E.D. The most prolific was a British book reviewer, Marghanita Laski, who supplied more than 100,000 usage illustrations...
There is a point at which the "plague on both your houses" outlook of the British left turns into sheer self-righteousness. Precisely at this point Marghanita Laski sat down to write The Offshore Island for the B.B.C. in 1954. In the resultant drama the United States and the Soviet Union emerge as allies-fin-destruction, victimizing innocent England...
...Victorian Chaise Longue, by Marghanita Laski. A slight but chilling tale about a girl who strayed from the 20th century into the 19th (TIME, June...
...Victorian Chaise Longue, by Marghanita Laski. A slight but chilling tale about a girl who strayed from the 20th century into the 19th (TIME, June...
Split personality seems to be the literary vogue this season. In A Garden to the Sea (TIME, April 19), Philip Toynbee split his hero four ways, mainly to tell an experimental love story. Marghanita Laski used the simpler, two-way, Jekyll & Hyde approach in The Victorian Chaise Longue (TIME, June 14). In The Bird's Nest, Novelist Shirley Jackson reverts to Toynbee's four-in-one split to document a tortuous case of mental illness...