Word: plongeur
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...after Eton (where he "learned very little"), and had served five years with the Imperial Police in Burma. The climate, the itch to write and a distaste for British colonial policy sent him back to Europe. Publishers turned him down, his money ran out and soon he became a plongeur (dishwasher) in a Paris hotel...