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Word: phaeton (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1923-1923
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...adding machine supplanted the Dickensian bookkeeper, as the automobile did away with landau and phaeton, so the radio, it is said, is rapidly evicting the old-fashioned reciter from his or her diminishing place in the sun. Oh, many are still to be found! Professors of elocution ? even in New York, highly-skilled and successful monologists such as Ruth Draper...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Reciters | 6/11/1923 | See Source »

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