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And one of his partners asked Has he vertigo? and the other glanced out and down and said Oh no, only about ten feet more.

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Ogden Nash
Age: 68 †
Born: 1902
Born: August 19
Died: 1971
Died: May 19
Poet
Screenwriter
Writer
New York
United States
Frederic Ogden Nash
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Feet
Vertigo
Glanced
Suicidal
Partners
Suicide
Ten

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