Word: hobbledehoy
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Anthony, "a hobbledehoy of 19, without any idea of a career," Frances obtained a clerkship in the London Post Office. Tom, her other son, joined his mother in writing money-making fiction...
...career," remarks Son Anthony, in a classic understatement, "offers great encouragement to those who have not begun early in life, but are still ambitious to do something before they depart hence." Post Office Hobbledehoy. For seven years, Trollope was the Post Office's black sheep. Moneylenders trailed him as they had trailed his mother; twice he was led off to jail for debt (but not locked...