Word: dulwich
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...beginning, anyway, Wodehouse knew about the world of butlers and country houses only secondhand. His father was a judge in Hong Kong, and Wodehouse and his three brothers spent their boyhoods with relatives in England. He went to Dulwich College, a good but not famous public school near London; he was all set to attend Oxford, when the Indian rupee, on which his father's pension was pegged, collapsed. Instead, he got a job at the London office of the Hong Kong & Shanghai Bank. Unhappy at the bank, he began writing. In 1902 he published his first novel...
...largest previous art robbery was the theft in December 1966 from London's Dulwich College Museum of eight paintings valued at $7 million...