Word: subalterr
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...tells it, Niven's military career, which he began as a subalterr in 1929, reads like a script for Carry On, Sergeant. Its high point was a regimental costume ball for which Niver and a brother officer dressed as goats Feeling that his talents as a comedian were wasted in the army, Niven resigned his commission after only four years' service in Malta and the British Isles. In 1933 he appeared in New York City, and parlayed a London connection with Barbara Hutton into a job selling liquor for Jack Kriendler...
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