Word: raincloud
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Partridge analyses are liberally flavored with allusions to the Bible, history, mythology and fiction (Gilbert & Sullivan and the Pickwick Papers are great favorites). Sometimes he personifies the elements (a lagging raincloud is a "queenly tragedienne, making a majestic exit into the wings"). Sometimes literal-minded listeners write him long, cross, reproving letters...
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