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Word: segur (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Death on the Aveneu de Segur" Antoine Blondin takes the reader on a priest's errand of mercy through a small apartment house. As the priest goes from floor to floor, in search of a dying woman known only by the name of Morderet, Blondin presents a series of sharp character sketches: the retired general whose "majestic wife knits him regulation ear-muffs," the hunchback who practices the samba with a chair held in his arms, the robbers who once burglarized an apartment ("they carried down the garbage when they left, it was right on their way, after...

Author: By Michael J. Halberstam, | Title: Paris Review | 4/10/1953 | See Source »

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