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Word: straight-backed (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1939-1939
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...down. His face is thin and fine, its profile especially delicate. He wears his greying, thinning hair brushed back without a part. Joyce reads and writes sprawling in bed or on a couch but he does not like it known. He is very formal in public, in restaurants prefers straight-back chairs in which he sits bolt upright...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BOOKS: Night Thoughts | 5/8/1939 | See Source »

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