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Word: sexsmith (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...much even the backwoods balladists of North America knew, and any English major can recite the rest of the awful truth: the great Romantic poet was a no-proof lush and a sexsmith who took all womanhood for his forge. For love of him, a titled lady stabbed herself with a pair of scissors, and for hate, a cast-off mistress had him burned in effigy. Even his half-sister succumbed to his wiles...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Poet on a Chain | 8/3/1953 | See Source »

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