Word: trinian
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Dates: during 1953-1953
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...Poison-Ivied Walls" [Nov. 2]: so St. Trinian's is closed! I, for one, will miss the frantic antics of the little monsters. The "somewhere in England" address of St. Trinian's was Cambridge, and the "model" was the Cambridge and County High School for Girls...
...during the day that these courts were vacant ... so Mr. Searle had ample opportunity to look for ghoulish girls. As a contemporary of Mr. Searle's and an "old girl" of the high school, that knock-kneed, spotty-faced gargoyle wearing glasses, in the chem lab of St. Trinian's [see cut] could quite possibly...
...under a roller, stab their last classmate in gym ("Some little girl didn't hear me say 'unarmed combat,' " chides a teacher), and, having come into possession of some top secret information, they blow up their school with the latest atom bomb. From now on, St. Trinian's will be only a word-to be used every time a school window is broken, a classroom wrecked or an underclassman over-hazed. Otherwise, wrote Poet C. Day Lewis in a special dirge, St. Trinian's is gone...
...last twelve years, these ghoulish girls have won fame & fortune for their creator. A wiry, goateed man who still suffers from the "cab-horse knees" acquired in a World War II Japanese prisoner-of-war camp, Cartoonist Ronald Searle has seen St. Trinian's become a part of the British public school folklore. His first two cartoon books have both gone through nine printings, and the school itself has appeared in skits in at least three musical revues. Today its bloody playing fields are as famous as Eton's, and its horrible little girls are quite as well...
...Cartoonist Searle's horror, St. Trinian's has also become a synonym. He first realized this on the day he read a newspaper account of how three girls in Scotland actually did try to burn down a school. "When he read that," says his wife, "he went absolutely white. I kept praying -please, please, don't let them mention St. Trinian's!" But, of course, the newspapers...