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Word: sitwellian (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...most iridescent contemporary writers (England Reclaimed, Escape with Me). Left Hand, Right Hand ("the lines of the left hand are incised unalterably at birth . . . those of the right hand are modified by one's actions") is a neo-Proustian, witty remembrance of things (mainly amusing) from the proud Sitwellian past. It is also a latter-day Book of Snobs, in which converge "all [the] diverse rays of lineage" that form that "mixture of blood which in England constitutes the aristocratic tradition...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Tail of Sir Osbert | 5/15/1944 | See Source »

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