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The dawn of legibility in his handwriting has revealed his utter inability to spell.

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War is hell, and all that, but it has a good deal to recommend it. It wipes out all the small nuisances of peace-time.

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What do you mean, funny? Funny peculiar or funny ha-ha?

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Born: April 17, 1876
Died: September 22, 1952 (aged 76)
Bio: Major General John Hay Beith was a British schoolmaster and soldier, but he is best remembered as a novelist, playwright, essayist and historian who wrote under the pen name Ian Hay.
Known for:
  1. The first hundred thousand (1915)
  2. The lighter side of school life (1914)
  3. Happy-go-lucky (1913)
  4. The Willing Horse: A Novel (1900)
  5. Getting together (1917)

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