Word: shagging
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...always felt "dreadfully embarrassed" when he found himself alone with a woman. But when he paid a visit one day to dyspeptic Thomas Carlyle and found only Mrs. Carlyle at home, he was so promptly disembarrassed by her poise and charm that he stuffed a pipe brimful with stinking shag and harangued her happily for three solid hours, "exactly as if he were talking with a clever man." And Charles Dickens-to say nothing of Thackeray and John Stuart Mill-felt much the same way about Jane Carlyle. "None of the writing women," said Dickens, "came near...