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Word: unreels (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...hysteria" they used to deride. Their self-assured little world, fissured anyway with snobberies, jealousies and plots, goes to pieces. As Harvard overflows with V-12s in training, Dorothea's libertine of 1923 shows up rich and flashy in a Navy uniform. As the ensuing chapters unreel, the reader may think that Miss Howe's heroine is being loaded with the wartime experiences of a dozen women rather than one, but plenty of women felt that way about themselves...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Breakage on Brattle Street | 7/15/1946 | See Source »

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