Word: dufferism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Just fight and die, you duffer...
...Duffer at Harvard. Robinson's father was reluctant to let him go to college, because one of Edwin's older brothers had gone to college to study medicine, and had become, by 29, an addict to his own morphine bottle. Father Robinson at last gave grudging consent for the boy to attend classes at Harvard, though lack of credits made him a "special student...
Fate whacks at Wodehouse characters like a duffer with a No. 7 iron. There is the problem of Agnes Flack, when a Pekingese picks up her ball on the 18th green and carries it into the clubhouse-should she blast out with a niblick? And there is the predicament of Bingo Little, when his child's nurse, a motherly woman, trails him to an assignation to give him his woolly muffler...
They were grim days, but for Commissioner Allen full of exhilarating experiences. He recalls some of them. Harry Hopkins made him the District of Columbia's Relief Administrator. George played golf with Harry, who was a hopeless duffer, and spotted Hopkins two strokes a hole "for an additional million dollars for District relief projects." George Allen got his million, kindness of U.S. taxpayers...