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Word: neckcloths (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1925-1925
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...people, they do say. He has a pretty way with words, this Michael, or this Dikran. If it is the same trick that the cavaliers of the 17th Century had with a lady's hand, and the dandies of the 18th with a silver perruque and a puffing neckcloth, that is because he stands, as they did, in defense of gallantry; and it is a proud thing to be paid for defending gallantry in a world that has forgotten it. As for putting stories together, he.can put one inside the other, so that the one within illumines that without...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Mayfairies | 6/1/1925 | See Source »

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