Word: pathic
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...born in Madrid, in 1906. Her grandfather Don Antonio, an old man of majestic beauty, was Spain's greatest statesman; and she was subjected to the petrifying education which was the privilege of females of her class. When she was 20, in spotless ignorance, she married a pathic provincial nearly seven feet tall, who gave her a daughter and lived off her money...
...their hangovers; a good deal about their transports but not so much about their quarrels. And the wisecracks that seemed in O'Hara's earlier books to be wrenched from the speakers like snarls of pain seem in Hope of Heaven pat and smug, more pretentious than pathic...