Word: turveydrop
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Dates: during 1953-1953
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...world of Tulkinghorn, Snagsby, and Turveydrop is a somewhat exclusive one, but to those who have not yet been able to penetrate Dickens' wordy, comic society Williams offers extensive introductions. His thirty-five characters are each sharply etched, sometimes by a gesture of the performer, sometimes by a line from the author. As Mrs. Pardiggle, an officious do-gooder, Williams seems to puff out, his voice crispens, his eye arrests. And Dickens delineates shrewish Mrs. Snagsby with "she has a nose like a sharp autumn-evening, inclining to be frosty...
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