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Calvin Trillin

(1935--)

U.S. verse columnist

The shelf life of the modern hardback writer is somewhere between the milk and the yogurt.

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Calvin Trillin

(1935--) U.S. verse columnist Even today, well-brought up English girls are taught to boil all vegetables for at least a month and a half, just in case one of the […] www.english-slang.com

on the shelf

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Oscar Wilde

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