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Word: shigalov (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Usage:

...world of saloons Dangerfield is a born chuckee-out. He is very strong. He is able to tear the legs off a chair one by one, and threaten and bully women, one by one. Like Dostoevsky's Shigalov, the inventor of "Shigalovism," he is a nihilist in action. His other activities include getting thrown out of the ladies' room of the U.S. embassy in a wild chase that bears a slight resemblance to poor Bloom's expulsion, "like a shot off a shovel" from Barney Kiernan...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Unblushing Bloom | 6/2/1958 | See Source »

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