Word: shel
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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UNCLE SHELBY'S ABZ BOOK-Shel Silverstein-Simon & Schuster...
...introduced to Charles Peacock, an accountant whose only distinction is that his brother is Shelmerdine Peacock, the famous Hollywood star. At the annual company dinner, Accountant Peacock tries desperately-and fails-to attract attention with his Negro-dialect reminiscences ("The last time I saw 1'il ole brudder Shel . . ."). Fortified with whisky, sherry, hock, Volnay and brandy, Peacock resorts at last to his only trick-demonstrating the "stage fall" that his brother had taught him. At the end of the party, his audience gone, Peacock falls flat a few more times for the benefit of Queen Victoria-whose portrait...