Word: throop
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Properly girt about with wash-and-wear shirts, Soby sets sail for Venice and is set upon by a pair of memorable literary harpies: Miss Mathilde Kollwitz, a mosquito-sized Winnetka music teacher who perennially knits a succession of moose-sized sweaters, and Miss Winifred Throop, a mountainous ex-headmistress who wears a red wig as proudly as she does her overgrown schoolgirl's faith in True Love...
...achieve his own aging heart's desire (which soon turns out to be Miss Throop's 17-year-old niece), Soby endures, besides the company of these two ladies, all manner of other trials. He tears around the Mediterranean to rescue an old tomcat (symbolically named Aschenbach...