(noun) one that has recently or suddenly risen to…
The Company She Keeps
by
Mary McCarthy
March 25, 2025 - March 27, 2025
(fiction, women-and-their-dilemmas)
McCarthy, M. (1942). The Company She Keeps. Mariner Books Classics.
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parvenu »
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distich »
(noun) a strophic unit of two lines
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salutary »
(adjective) producing a beneficial effect; remedi…
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paterfamilias »
(noun) the male head of a household / (noun) the …
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soubrette »
(noun) a coquettish maid or frivolous young woman…
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If one only could … But it required strength. It …
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[...] She could no longer go back into circulatio…
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“Accept yourself as you are,” he said. “Stop tryi…
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[...] “Your mother,” he said once, succinctly, “w…
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Yet what were you going to do? You could not trea…