Word: rumdums
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Dates: during 1925-1925
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...from Chile to Buenos Aires stuck in a snowdrift on the Andes Mountains and had to turn back to Los Andes. Nor was he more than slightly startled when, as he strolled the streets of that town, bored by the oppressive company of his persona] detective, he saw a rumdum reel out of a saloon, strike a companion with a stone, receive, in return, a knife-thrust in the stomach. He caught the sagging body in his arms, directed, after a solicitous inquiry, that it be removed to a hospital...
...other. Without a word, but trembling slightly, they turned and began to hurry as fast as their gout-stiffened limbs would carry them, toward the clubhouse. Who but a thief or a nonmember would run around the course as if he were afraid of his shadow? Who but a rumdum or a simpleton would play his ball without taking a stance? It was clearly a matter to be reported. Some 20 minutes later the two dotards, traveling at their turtle pace, reached the 18th green, approached the greenskeeper...