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Word: naughtiest (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Parliament, when not crusading for something, he crusades against crusaders. At his naughtiest, he has driven verbal splinters under Lady Astor's fingernails,-or lit dialectical firecrackers under the earnest Left. At his nicest, he has tilted at sesquipedalian government reports (his parody: "It has been aquating hard. I am now going to dehydrate my socks"). At his sanest, he helped win the first marked mitigation of Britain's stringent divorce laws since...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: Big Ben Strikes | 4/29/1946 | See Source »

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