Word: mouser
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...laced with references to Vivien's illnesses, constant moves and removes in search of better air or care. Eventually the strain proved too much. Eliot went off to a psychiatrist in Lausanne for three months in 1921, dropping Vivien in Paris and leaving their cat, "a very good mouser," with Poet Richard Aldington. He needed to learn, he explained, "to be calm when there is nothing to be gained by worry." When he came back, he brought much of The Waste Land with...