Guedalla
Americannoun
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According to historian Philip Guedalla, reading detective fiction is the “normal recreation of noble minds.”
From Washington Post • Dec. 8, 2022
In effect, his site’s archives make up a valuable critical guide for anyone who enjoys “the normal recreation of noble minds,” as the essayist Philip Guedalla once called the reading of detective stories.
From Washington Post • Mar. 4, 2015
Last week, Scotland Yard began an investigation into claims that the police briefings attended by Mr Brooks had been secretly recorded at the offices of Deighton Guedalla, in Islington, north London, in 1999 or 2000.
From BBC • Jul. 6, 2013
"That was the school," says Author Guedalla, "at which Mr. Churchill learned deportment for Prime Ministers in time of war."
From Time Magazine Archive
Napier stood close behind the pair, waiting for the excuse he felt that Mrs. Guedalla would make for not going down with the crowd to confront her husband.
From The Messenger by Robins, Elizabeth
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