Word: thatched
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Dates: during 1922-1922
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...heavy timber of the 18th century novelists, or the romantic poets, with which to raise his super structure. He very seldom gets far enough even to consider adding a roof. The natural question arises: what is the good of a house founded upon a rock, if there is no thatch of sufficient thickness to keep out the rains and the flood of contemporary fiction...