Word: maginn
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...doctor with "a very low bow" and the words: "I hope, sir, that you will live longer than your patients." He tempered the generosity of a prince with a biting common sense-as in his answer to a request for money for a friend's tombstone: "I lent Maginn ?500 in his life time and he paid me ?20 back. I think I have done enough in giving him bread-let other philanthropists give him a stone...
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