Word: shillingsworth
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...atomic war. Shop counters were piled high with oranges and lemons (the British had foresightedly cleared the bulk of the Palestine citrus crops before beginning troop withdrawals). Fruits and vegetables were arriving from South Africa. But the average Briton was still plagued with shortages. He was limited to a shillingsworth of meat (tuppence of it in corned beef), and fats and soap were hard to find. The current music-hall gag on the subject: "The soap ration doesn't worry me-with the food I get I ain't got the strength to wash." To make...
Yeller Feller. By 1904, when Government Clerks Oscar and Mark Shillingsworth arrived in Port Zodiac (Darwin), the town was a thronging spectrum of racial color. "Going combo" (mixing with the native women) was officially taboo but an enthusiastic reality in a country short on white women and addicted to "black velvet." Soon half-castes outnumbered whites three-to-one. Unrecognized by their white fathers (who felt vaguely double-crossed), they were tolerated as mongrels by the blacks...
Such a mongrel was little Nawnim (No Name), half-caste son of Mark Shillingsworth. Father Mark spent his time between pearl diving, trepang fishing, debtors' jail, bouts with delirium tremens in the local hospital...
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