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Word: spurlin (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...might seem a shade unsubtle even to the simple eye of Central Casting Office file clerk, and their names are something that S. J. Perelman would love to give a droll roll on his tongue. They include Bradwell Tolliver, Lettice Poindexter, Gomp ("Frog-eye") Drumm and Mortimer ["Jingle Bells") Spurlin. Everybody seems to go by a nickname in Fiddlersburg; even the electric chair in the local pen is called "Sukie...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: From an Aeolian Cave | 4/24/1964 | See Source »

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