Word: lifemen
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...esoteric question and then rapidly answer it oneself (having, of course, looked up the answer beforehand), e.g., "I wonder what the expectation of life of, say, an advertising agent of thirty really is-at this moment of time, I mean." This, however, should be tried only by experienced Lifemen, as the gambit, like all gambits, has its answer or "counter-life," e.g., "I should have thought that question had lost validity in our contemporary context," or possibly, "I wondered how long it would be before somebody asked that question...
...Counterpotter. Far from being merely a dry manual, Potter's book is alive with the personalities of real Lifemen. There are men like G. Odoreida, a thorough cad even by Lifemanship standards (to a fellow Lifeman ecstatically in love he would dryly remark: "Well, how is your little caper with Julia going?"). And there are crafty operators like G. Cogg-Willoughby, whose most famous victory came at a weekend party against an egregious hostess-nobbier named P. de Sint, the kind of man who develops a rich, bronze suntan in a matter of hours...
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