Word: timelessness
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...fancy fairy-tale of gentility to account for her origin and bulwarked it with cunning lies and deceit. But she never became really respectable. And who shall blame her? At all events her picture, in all this historic frame, glows astonishingly meteoric and lifelike and hangs smiling in the timeless, inglorious gallery of the Du Barrys, the Maintenons, the Pompadours...
...among the more pretentious of our writers. Which makes it all the more pleasant to come across a volume which is not merely a sequel but a sequel to the nth power - the 27th item in a series of books that has sold three million copies already - the continuous, timeless story of the adventures of a typically American family, which for sheer length makes James Joyce's Ulysses seem like a preface. We refer, of course, to the latest segment of the Rover saga - The Rover Boys at Big Bear Lake or The Camps of the Rival Cadets...