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Word: fingal (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1940
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...girl or paid no attention. (Dr. Wilde, knighted nine months before his worse scandal, left a family in every farmhouse, said G. B. Shaw.) Grieved that Oscar was not a girl (he looked, said a visitor, like a little Hindoo idol), Speranza consoled herself by naming him Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wills Wilde, dressed him like a girl, let him stay up to mingle with the bohemians, patriots and poets who flocked to her salon...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Homogenius | 3/25/1940 | See Source »

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