Word: lawrenceman
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Dates: during 1959-1959
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...major contribution of Potter's new handbook is the appearance of a bearded character known only as The Lawrenceman. It was never certain that he had ever actually read the works of D. H. Lawrence, but he had got hold of a few phrases and made brilliant use of them. There was, for instance, the occasion when a tweedy iconoclast named Cornelius Sticking loudly criticized a county family for putting on their best clothes to go to church on Sundays. The Lawrenceman merely looked out over his beard and asked mildly: "Is that a badness?" Sticking only managed...
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