Word: oxenford
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Follett has assembled quite a quirky cast of characters to inhabit his story. The Clipper list includes: Lord Oxenford, a British fascist fleeing arrest with his family; Carl Hartmann, a distinguished Jewish physicist escaping from the Nazis; Harry Marks, a bold and debonair jewel thief one step ahead of the authorities; Diana Lovesy, a bored and buxom housewife seeking adventure in America; and Tom Luther, a dangerous man with a dark mission (or is it vice versa...
...most entertaining is the inevitable confrontation between Lord Oxenford and Professor Hartmann, in which the nasty fascist receives a stern comeuppance from the more decent and freedom-loving of the passengers...
Even Margaret Oxenford, whose goals are less obsessively romantic than those of the other women, reacts to a moment of turbulence by thinking, "Before I die, I'd like to have my breasts stroked again...
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