Word: jerrybuilt
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...imbibed some principles, evolved no real convictions. When she met Dick Pennington, an ordinary, decent, motor-bike-riding young clerk who had been to a third-rate "public school" (U. S.: private), their attraction was mutual and sudden. They married, on very little a week, soon moved into a jerrybuilt bungalow they could not really afford. Then things began to happen. Susan, to her dismay, found she was going to have a baby. Dick lost his job. Payments on the furniture, the rent, were overdue. The baby was born prematurely, stillborn. Then Manufacturer Bulgin, villain in tycoon's clothing...