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Like most of the distinguished Glynne family Catherine was devoted to "Glynnese," a private language whose proper use was once demonstrated in a speech supposedly to be delivered by Gladstone in Parliament: "Sir, the Noble Lord opposite is such a phantod* and the Honourable Gentleman next to him such a daundering† and wizzy** old totterton...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: To the Last Man | 7/1/1957 | See Source »

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