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Word: trapnel (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1971-1971
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...Flitton, as bitchy and beautiful as she is promiscuous. Widmerpool is backing Nick's magazine and its editor, a furtive, bibulous literary hack known in the trade as Books-Do-Furnish-a-Room Bagshaw. Pamela is backing a gifted, eccentric writer in the magazine's stable, X. Trapnel, to the extent that she leaves Widmerpool and moves in with him. Ultimately she destroys him and returns to Widmerpool, while the intrigues surrounding the liaison cost Bagshaw...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Respectfully Submitted | 9/27/1971 | See Source »

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