Word: sycophantic
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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"Even so, such tags provide interesting material for a study of the times." The tutor idly leafed a copy of "Dichtung und Wahreit" which belonged to the bedraggled sycophant. "Just as these strange inscriptions will interest the historians of two thousand years from now. From this flyleaf they will reconstruct...
The author of "O Rare Ben Johnson" writes the amazing record of Elizabeth's Lord Chancellor, the brilliant philosopher, statesman, sycophant, whose downfall was the climax of one of the most astonishing careers in history.
Since Painter Brush is already 74 years old, it is unlikely that he will collect any money from Mrs. Brooks-Aten. No foxy sycophant tricking unwary ladies with oiled flatteries for which they can ill afford to pay, Artist Brush had better things to do last week than to gloat...