Word: abouts
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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Uncle Khosrove was a fierce and sorrowful man with the biggest mustache in the San Joaquin Valley. He used to sit in silence by the hour with his heartbroken little friend, a "poor and burning Arab." When the Arab died Khosrove "stood in the parlor with his hat on his...
There is the psaga of Psmith ("the p ... is silent as in phthisis, psychic, and ptarmigan"), the fastidious young man who calls everybody "Comrade," and almost alone among Wodehouse fauna has enough wits to live by. There is the epic of Jeeves, the infallible, verse-quoting valet ("We are in...
Next Wodehouse was reported to be in a prison camp at Huy in Belgium. To a request for information about Wodehouse, or his release, signed by U. S. writers, editors, theatrical producers, the German charge d'affaires in Washington, Hans Thomsen, replied that Wodehouse was "quite comfortable." "You may...
Wodehouse's American friends for a long time heard nothing about him at all. This week they learned that he is interned in a former insane asylum at Tost, a small village in the monotonous sugar-beet flatlands of Upper Silesia. Wodehouse has been there since the prison camp...
Wodehouse is allowed to write three letters, four post cards monthly. He is said to be getting all the working supplies he needs, to be writing a novel. What the novel is about Prisoner Wodehouse did not tell.