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spleen

[spleen] / splin /


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Spleen Actors Guild: Emoting our guts out since 1933.

From Washington Post • Nov. 25, 2020

In 2013, I read an investigative article in Mexico City’s Spleen!

From The New Yorker • Jan. 14, 2016

The 1982 Federal Express commercial featuring the fast-talking Mr. Spleen struck a chord in frantic managers everywhere.

From Time Magazine Archive

Spleen and scorn for les Americains, who had been fools enough to make M. Balieff rich, were explicitly on his lips in Paris.

From Time Magazine Archive

Child of sand's reflected shine, And of sun-rays fiercely bent, Is there ennui like to thine, Spleen of luminous Orient?

From Enamels and Cameos and other Poems by Lee, Agnes




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