Word: workaday
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...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 the autumn, sir, season of mists and mellow fruitfulness"). In the workaday world Jeeves might seem like an average enough gentleman's gentleman but stacked up beside Bertie Wooster, to whose harebrained Don Quixote he plays a discreet Sancho Panza, Jeeves looks like an intellectual giant. There is also Mr. Mulliner, of the bar parlor at the Angler's Rest...
...dressing room on reaching the theatre. When he is busy, he goes in a costume of tan, high-laced field boots, dark riding breeches, pastel green jacket with vest to match and a dark green shirt. He invariably instructs the announcer to apologize to the audience for his workaday appearance, despite the fact that spectators are stunned by the getup...
Border Boys. Far from the workaday radio world of Mexico City are the med ical and moral border blasters who shove their way into the U. S. firmament from roaring stations on the Mexican border: Dr. John Richard Brinkley, the goat-gland wizard and Astrologer Rose Dawn, a bouncy blonde plugger for everything from perfume to religious tomes, who use the 180,000 watts of station XERA at Villa Acufia; until recently Norman Baker who used 50,000-watt station XENT, near Nuevo Laredo until the U. S. Government convicted him for using the mails to de fraud...
...owner of the most expensive U. S. voice, last week in the middle of his annual concert tour, such incidents are workaday. Two years ago in Chicago, when 500 seats were sold on the stage, a female headed Nelson Eddy off, was just about to achieve her ambition of kissing him when she swooned. Since then, Baritone Eddy has barred seats on the stage...
...Pilgrimage is a running verse-commentary on the workaday stages of being an American, from the cradle to the grave. The start, as Hoyne sees it, is a weaning from "transcendental, ancient, Continental lies...