Word: mangler
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...hated to have women in his class ("Damn it all, Mrs. Brown, I wish you weren't here"), liked to announce his quizzes by pulling up his tie like a hangman's noose ("Well, I'm going hang you on Thursday. . . Any questions? ). An incorrigible mangler of names, Uncle Harry once bedeviled a student named Diket with a bewildering succession of near misses: Mr. Siket, Mr Liket, Mr. Ticket, Mr. Rickets, Mr. Fikit, Mr. Spiket, Mr. Icket...