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Word: weirdsley (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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Flippant Victorians parodied his name as Weirdsley Daubery or Awfly Weirdly. For the art of Aubrey Vincent Beardsley, whose sinuous draftsmanship fluttered through the pages of the 1890s farthest-out books, was the scandalous titillation of his day. He seemed to have dipped his pen in laudanum and night shade; his dark silhouettes fairly rippled with overtressed vixens, leering harle quins and glinting grotesques...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Graphics: The Monstrous Orchid | 5/27/1966 | See Source »

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