Word: tiddler
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...came a weak heart kept Tom from the front but did not prevent him from rising fast in his job. After the Armistice Tom threw over a promising political career for bigger pickings, married his dead friend's mistress, scurried faster and faster over the Tom Tiddler's ground of post-War London. He and Undine met again, realized too late that they were still in love. At a belated reunion in Berlin all the old friends met for the last time...
...TIDDLER'S GROUND-Edward Shanks-Bobbs-Merrill ($2.50). No one will ever accuse Edward Shanks of genius but many a reader will welcome his Tom Tiddler's Ground, a lengthy (552 pp.) but unpretentious novel of pre-to-post-War England, with a lyrical German interlude. Author Shanks's dangerously broad subject gives him plenty of chances to be flashy, cynical or sentimental, but he steers his modest middle course between these pitfalls...
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