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Word: stumped (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Magic Herbs. This hollow old stump of a plot might be enough for many a bestseller, but Novelist Goudge crams it with something more. She adores animals; so the book becomes an ark of cats, dogs, horses and oxen which almost outnumber the human population. She has a fondness for the supernatural; so the book is aclog with fairies, a white witch, magic herbs, and vervain brews. She cannot resist a legend, so several of them weave and wind in a fine confusion through the novel...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: A Woof of Joy | 1/2/1950 | See Source »

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