Word: vassal
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Jeeves is playing vassal to a new thane this time. Scatterbrained Bertie Wooster, for once apprehensive about the economic future of the British upper classes, has packed himself off to a home-economics school to learn all about cooking, sock-mending and polishing his own boots. Jeeves is on internal lend-lease to William, ninth Earl of Towcester, an amiable chap with "a marked shortage of the little gray cells ... It was generally agreed that whoever won the next Nobel Prize, it would not be Bill Towcester...
...note said the Republicans were bewildered over what kind of Republicans they were, and have "set up vassal units in neighboring colleges and used piles of dirty laundry to hide wire recorders from unsuspecting members...
...hinted that the C & D Dept. had considered such things as wrecking the NSA, packing the Student Council, smearing political candidates as Communists, and infiltrating the Liberal Union. Months later there were more charges of skulduggery; this time the GOPpers were alleged to have set up a string of "vassal clubs...