Word: footnut
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...first footnut is squirreled away after the book's first sentence, and the 40th by page 14. But the book clonks with special resonance because it accepts as simple truth Thurber's cheerful misreminiscence (in The Middle-Aged Man on the Flying Trapeze) that his grade school baseball team in Columbus had a 22-year-old centerfielder and several other athletes who had spent seven or eight years in the fourth grade...