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Word: yirgil (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1932-1932
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...with an old and ugly wife. When he discovered another man with her he did not shoot, or even shout. "He only said that he was bound by law to sleep with her, but why the other man was doing it he really could not understand." Then there is Yirgil Cristea, a baker whose reputation as a solid, sober citizen makes him a little sad. To divert his melancholy Author Baerlein persuades him to don a horsetail for a beard, pretend he is a gnome. But as gnomes are known to milk other people's cows...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Wanderlustre | 3/7/1932 | See Source »

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