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Word: paradoxhunds (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1925-1925
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...last. Yet there still remain here and there a few people who cherish the toys. Ellen Terry, actress, possesses a little theatre and a collection of the plays from which its scenes derive; Charles Spencer Chaplin, cinema comedian, lightens with one his melancholy hours; G. K. Chesterton, paradoxhund, is said to play with one while thinking out his articles. Many are preserved in Jacobean farmhouses, in Tudor mansions, in dour Scotch castles, in London palaces...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: A Penny Plain | 1/12/1925 | See Source »

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