Word: blisters
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Dates: during 1961-1961
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...pinhead in this case is a young aristoclot called Freddy Widgeon. Poor Freddy. He has been enrolled by his wealthy, tyrannical uncle, Lord Blicester (pronounced Blister), as "a wage slave in a solicitor's firm, as near to being an office boy as makes no matter." Freddy is limply determined to escape to Kenya and become a "coffee king," but he has to earn a few beans before he can plant any, and this involves 246 pages of wild but cheerful complications. Among them: a girl named Sally, whom Freddy considers "the biggest thing since sliced bread," a lady...