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Word: parva (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...terrible mistake, all right, sending a well-meaning ninny like Sellers to take over the parish of Orbiston Parva, home of the great three-in-one restorative, Tranquilax ("A sedative! A stimulant! A laxative!"). Everyone is outraged by the, new vicar's unfashionably golden-rule outlook except a profane and prolific family of Smiths. When the Tranquilax interests toss the Smiths out of the meadow where they have been squatting in grapes-of-wrath raunchiness. Sellers invites them to come live in the vicarage-goat and all. Soon he is up to his bicycle clips in holy hot water...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: God's Simpleton | 5/24/1963 | See Source »

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