Word: phillida
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Daily Express library, filing clippings. After World War I he was rehired as a reporter, but later was laid off. He tried short-story writing, then caught on as a reporter for the London Daily Mirror. There he acquired no reputation, but did acquire a wife: Mirror Reporter Phillida Hughes. They were once assigned to cover a pomp-&-pageantry affair. Since both suffered from ochlophobia (fear of crowds), they covered it from a tea shop. Gubbins wrote a glowing account of the occasion sight unseen and had time left to persuade Phillida to marry...
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