Word: trumpington
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Dates: during 1942-1942
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Special knives and tommy-guns and knuckle-dusters ; they wear rope-soled shoes . . . they carry rope ladders round their waists and files sewn in the seams of their coats to escape with," Alastair Trumpington breathlessly tells his pregnant wife. "D'you mind very much if I accept?" "No, darling, I couldn't keep you from the rope ladder. Not from the rope ladder I couldn't. I see that." It is not quite easy to believe in the Basil of the epilogue who says, "There's only one serious occupation for a chap now, that...