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Letters to Donald Windham 1940-1965 choose

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[US] T. Williams letter 11 Oct. Letters to D. Windham 17: So when you lose your baby—God forbid!—remember the world doesn’t end as easily as that [Simes:DLSS].
at baby, n.
[US] T. Williams Letters to D. Windham 28 June (1977) 6: The ‘crowd’ here is dominated by a platinum blond Hollywood belle named Doug and a bull-dike named Wanda, who is a well-known writer under a male pen-name [Simes:DLSS].
at bull-dyke, n.
[US] T. Williams letter 12 June Letters to D. Windham 77: The [...] service-men are out for blood—indiscriminately. [...] [A]ll the local girls [sc. gay men] have gone underground for the duration, speaking in whispers and dropping never a pin in public places [Simes:DLSS].
at drop (one’s) hairpins, v.
[US] T. Williams letter 25 June in Letters to D. Windham 82: I am removed bodily and spiritually from the Lana Turner script, it being decided that my character was ‘too fay’ for Lana to deal with [Simes:DLSS].
at fey, adj.
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