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... in the nineteen-thirties ... the most casual reader of murder mysteries could infallibly detect the villain, as soon as there entered a character who had recently washed his neck and did not commit mayhem on the English language.

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Ellen Glasgow
Age: 71 †
Born: 1874
Born: April 22
Died: 1945
Died: November 21
Essayist
Novelist
Poet
Suffragette
Writer
Richmond
Virginia
Ellen Anderson Gholson Glasgow
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Casual
Infallibly
Mystery
Neck
Mayhem
Villain
Thirties
Reader
Recently
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Language
Necks
Nineteen
Character
Commit
Washed
Murder
Entered
English
Mysteries

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anger and jealousy are spasms of the nerves, not of the heart.
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