1966, Paul Scott, "The Jewel in the Crown" in The Raj Quartet, 1966-1975.
Close by, but only to be glimpsed through the gateway in a high stucco wall, similarly shaded, is the bungalow once known as the chummery where three of four of Mr White's unmarried sub-divisional officers - usually Indians of the uncovenanted provincial civil service - used to live when not on tour in their own allotted areas of the district.
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Dicky could not afford living in the chummery, modest as it was. He had to explain this before he moved to a single room next the office where he worked all day.
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His first six months in Burma he had spent in Rangoon, where he was supposed to be learning the office side of his business. He had lived in a "chummery" with four other youths who devoted their entire energies to debauchery.
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1994, Business World, Vol. 14, Ananda Bazar Patrika Ltd., p. 159, https://books.google.ca/books?id=K6daAAAAYAAJ&q=%22chummeries%22&dq=%22chummeries%22&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwi8uLzritHNAhXBMGMKHZStD4EQ6AEIHjAA
Chummeries are extremely conducive to the great yuppie pursuit of networking.
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