Word: swordstick
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Dates: during 1952-1952
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...Swordsticks & Umbrellas. He was a slim, tall youth, who quickly developed such a belly that, when asked by a lady in World War I why he was not "out at the front," he was able to retort: "Go round to the side, Madam, and you'll see that I am." When, enveloped in a vast cloak and toying with a swordstick, he sat his 300 pounds down to dream on a wayside bench, passers-by "either take me for the village idiot or for one of Harrod's delivery vans." He liked to believe that his life...
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