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Word: whitebait (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...morality with the dreggy wine of French "realism." It countered convention with Oscar Wildeish witticisms ("Where is the pleasure of having parents if you may not disobey them"). For common sense it substituted shamelessly overgrown verbiage (" 'Tears, little one,' I said. 'See how they swim like whitebait in the fish-pools of your eyes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Boys Will Be Boys | 12/4/1950 | See Source »

...Cuthbert Worsley, surprisingly little of this left-wing fuzziness appears. Worsley, who is also drama critic and chief puzzle-master (under such pseudonyms as "Thomas Smallbones"), leans heavily on a few steadily brilliant contributors: Desmond Shawe-Taylor (music), Patrick Heron (art), G. W. Stonier, who also writes as "William Whitebait," (books, cinema) and topflight Book Critic V. S. Pritchett...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Puzzles & Politics . | 9/4/1950 | See Source »

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