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Word: mycroft (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...corpulent genius, Nero Wolfe. Like Holmes, Wolfe is coolly intellectual, fanatically thorough and precise, brilliantly epigrammatic; he is also a crotchety bachelor, gastronome, flower fancier and born actor. There is even a family resemblance between the two, considering Wolfe's physical likeness to Holmes' brother Mycroft...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The American Holmes | 3/21/1969 | See Source »

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