Trick Cyclists, Domestics and Golf

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IT has been argued that a nickname that is not positively offensive may constitute the first step on the road to acceptance if not popularity. Certainly, the British Army psychiatrists in the last war were well and truly plagued with the nickname trick cyclists. In a book just published (Psychiatry in the British Army in the Second World War) the author, Dr. R. H. Ahrenfeldt, calls the term half friendly, half doubtful. In reviewing the book in the Daily Telegraph, Dr. E. B. Strauss, of St. Bartholomew's Hospital, has said that jokes about trick cyclists never got under his . . .

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