Word: paradoxial
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...Alicia Marks. Her father, Arthur Marks, was a globe-trotting Brit ish mining engineer who went to school in the U.S. and once worked on the Nile's great Aswan Dam. A serious-minded tot, Lillian would probably have embarked on a career in medicine but for the paradoxi cal fact that she had weak arches. To cor rect them she took up dancing at the age of nine. A year later, in 1921, she danced her first engagement - as a child prodigy in the traditional Christmas pantomime Dick -Whittington at London's old Kennington Theater...
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