Word: devonshire
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...Gentlemen with a Duster." It champions Conservatism against both Liberalism and Socialism, and in so doing the language is direct, conclusive, partisan, brilliant. It is, or seems to be, a thousand pities that the author failed to include such Conservative personalities as Lord Curzon and the Duke of Devonshir. The dusting of these gentlemen might have disturbed the atmosphere at Westminster, convulsed the author with literary sneezes and choked the readers with amusement not unmixed with that grain of truth that invariably deserts the object and sticks to the duster...
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