Word: slyest
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Dates: during 1926-1926
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...have him compose stinging refusals. Nor did she succumb to the Prince of Wales (George IV) in a guilty mood. To her he was verily Prince Charming, up to the moment of commitment. Her second seduction, by Charles Fox, was a helpless lady's surrender to the slyest of flattery; he wooed her "parts," her "unsuspected powers." ... So writes generous E. Barrington-L. Adams Beck, the double-barreled lady who has lately risen to fame as an expositor of Oriental mysticism (Splendour of Asia, The Ninth Vibration, etc.) and simultaneously as biographer of the Duchess of Fenton (The Chaste...