Word: beano
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Sneath kept trying. To the master of another distinguished school he wrote: "You will doubtless remember old Tubby Sneath-well, it will give you a helluva shock, you old bounder, because last year I took the headship here . . . Listen, Stinker, quite seriously, Selhurst is having a beano for its 300th anniversary on June 19. Could you come down, old boy, and give us a sermon on the Sunday?" Returned the headmaster's secretary, on the distinguished man's behalf: "Obviously not meant...