Word: shigalov
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...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...
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