Word: niblick
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Fate whacks at Wodehouse characters like a duffer with a No. 7 iron. There is the problem of Agnes Flack, when a Pekingese picks up her ball on the 18th green and carries it into the clubhouse-should she blast out with a niblick? And there is the predicament of Bingo Little, when his child's nurse, a motherly woman, trails him to an assignation to give him his woolly muffler...
...retire. Indignantly the Globe wrote: "The newspaper [Blanton edits] is one of Missouri journalism's choice assets . . . We herewith and to his face call Jack Blanton a quitter, a fellow with a future who is deliberately passing it by to dally down the primrose path with a niblick in one hand, a fishpole in the other...