Word: whoreson
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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Chambers is sometimes cheerfully diverting. He discourses on mushrooms. He jocularly informs Buckley that his son John is a "great eater of your whoreson flapjacks." He passes along crazy, bullish stock market tips-some of which turn out to be crazy like a fox. Reformed revolutionaries, Chambers observes wryly, when they can learn to stifle their scruples, often do well in finance. He is a notable coiner of cranky but sharp-eyed political epigrams: "The illusion of Yalta [1945]: that the Communists yearned for peace if only we'd be kind to them. The illusion of Geneva [1955]: that...
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