Word: sticklers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...original with Mr. Waugh, either. In Hesketh Pearson's biography, Oscar Wilde [Harper; 1946], we find Wilde telling a florid version of it to a friend on whom he fobbed it off as a true story about one of his own family. And since Wilde was no stickler for pure originality, the tale was probably kicking around long before his time...