Word: steeplejack
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Seeking further information from an Oxonian, a friend, my concern for the permanency of the accomplishment was quickly put at rest, since, as he explained, the contingency had already been anticipated by the undergraduate steeplejack and the article provided...
...Oxford "rags" none was ever more successful than the occasion upon which an expert undergraduate steeplejack poised, upon the topmost pinnacle of a memorial spire, far beyond the reach of troglodytic municipal navvies, a common porcelain toilet article...
Throughout England this great wind, so easily overcome by the airplane, blew down 150 telephone lines, blew up floods from several rivers, blew a steeplejack off the spire of St. Helen's Church, London, killing him instantly, injured 300 persons, killed 19 beside the poor steeplejack...