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1941. The most famous dictionary after the OED and Webster's. The renowned author and journalist provides hilariously witty and wise definitions for common words in our language. For example: Abdication - an act whereby a sovereign attests his sense of the high temperature of the throne; Abrupt - sudden, without ceremony, like the arrival of a cannon-shot and the departure of the soldier whose interests are most affected by it. Dr. Samuel Johnson beautifully said of another author's ideas that they were "concatenated without abruption."
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- ISBN-10: 0766135314
- ISBN-13: 9780766135314
- Publisher: Kessinger Publishing
- Pub date: Jan 01, 2003
- Also available as: Paperback, Hardcover, Library Binding and Others
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