Word: tottered
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Pain into Pleasantry. Everywhere the letters bear Walpole's signature as well as his century's. "The first step toward being in fashion is to lose an eye or a tooth-not that I complain-it is charming to totter into vogue," could only beWalpole. Thus he turns pain into pleasantry, parliamentary battles into hair-pulling matches, the universe itself into a ballroom. With just as unillusioned a view, Horace's father became the most successful of British administrators. The father was as philistine as Horace could be exquisite, but they were not too unlike -a cynical...
...cheekbone." His success is twofold. In the first place a child of three takes an incomprehensible fancy to him and for a few glorious minutes they play. Then the old boy experiences an even greater triumph: he is able to rise from the bench, regain his feet and totter on. "He had done it again...