Word: jeeveses
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Approving Bottoms. Between the wars-World I and II-Travers turned out a series of farces sketching a Wode-housean gallery of silly asses of the English upper class, alas unrelieved by a Jeeves. "They were quite good, but just things for laughter," Travers recalls. By the '50s, this...
Or better, tell Jeeves to do it himself. Get some trimmings, trim a tree:
As a devotee of P.G. Wodehouse, may I say that of all the many failures to achieve a pastiche of the style of the Master, this effort of Mr. Kanfer's must take the jolly old biscuit. The idea of Jeeves as a club waiter serving "gin stengahs" (whatever...
Jeeves, another gin stengah. A treasure, Jeeves is. Been with the club since the flood. Where was I? Ah, yes. Books. Haven't read but one since Oxbridge. Burke's Peerage. Breeders' guide to British nobility. Smashing heraldry: gules argent, lions rampant, bars sinister, all that drill...
The family trees? About what you'd expect. Lots of descendants in trade. Lots of descendants in politics. But mainly lots of descendants. No wonder the company is now preparing Burke 's Distinguished Families of America. There'll be a volume for you: full of big spacecraft...