Word: sottish
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...into the April sky. The winey sunlight warmed his gouty limbs and made his head contract pleasantly. Suddenly the Vagabond turned and frowned at the disgusting clutter of his room. He saw the remnants of his Vintage 99 (99 cents), his pictures awry, his clothes in disarray. Winter and sottish hibernation. . . Turning again to the window and with a last fine whiff of April morning, the Vagabond strode with Merrimanly grandeur to the shower...
...back in 1820, Camila was the daughter of Andalusian gypsies who had to leave Spain because Daddy had knifed a fellow-gypsy, a thing not done. In England her father sold Camila to a sottish squire who lived in Devonshire because he had been caught card-sharping in London. The squire's wife was an embittered dipsomaniac, his children unmannerly little devils; the house was not very orderly. Nevertheless Camila liked it. As she grew up she fell in love with one of her foster- brothers, Evelyn, who was beautiful. Unfortunately he turned out to be a provincial esthete...