Word: apprenticedâ
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Dates: during 1976-1976
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...lately editor of the successful Pennsylvania Magazine. Just two years ago he resided in England and called himself "Pain." And pain has been his lot. He is a failed tax official, a failed tobacconist, a failed husband, and a frequent failure at the humble trade to which he was apprenticed???that of corsetmaker. His second wife paid him £ 35 as part of the agreement by which he left her house (she is reported to have said that they never consummated the marriage, but his only comment is, "It is nobody's business but my own"). Thus cheered...
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