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"This george was a man who, after a lifetime of doing down the widow and orphan, had begun to feel the strain a bit"

1. What is the meaning of this sentence.
2. Here, what does "doing down the widow and orphan" mean?

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Answer:

2.) widow and orphans are typographical terms for when a word is left on its own line at the start or end of paragraph

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