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A Christmas Tree is perhaps best described as Dickens's "other" Christmas story, this is an elderly narrator's reminiscence of holidays past, each incident.
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Perhaps the name was suggested by association of ideas with bishops - the Archbishop of Canterbury, Cosmo Gordon Lang, had died in Or perhaps it is a joke: Wodehouse would certainly remember that cosmos is Greek for order, organisation. St Mary Axe is a street in the heart of the City of London.
For, it is by this time noticeable that, whatever befals, the Veneerings must give a dinner upon it.
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Lady Tippins lives in a chronic state of invitation to dine with the Veneerings, and in a chronic state of inflammation arising from the dinners. Boots and Brewer go about in cabs, with no other intelligible business on earth than to beat up people to come and dine with the Veneerings. Veneering pervades the legislative lobbies, intent upon entrapping his fellow-legislators to dinner. In Victorian times she was the subject of a famous painting by Millais and a poem by Tennyson.
WITH blackest moss the flower-plots Were thickly crusted, one and all: The rusted nails fell from the knots That held the pear to the gable-wall. The broken sheds look'd sad and strange: Unlifted was the clinking latch; Weeded and worn the ancient thatch Upon the lonely moated grange. She only said, 'My life is dreary, He cometh not,' she said; She said, 'I am aweary, aweary, I would that I were dead! The American businessman Arthur Murray set up his first dancing classes in With the help of innovative techniques, such as dancing lessons by correspondence, radio broadcasts and franchising, he soon had a chain of dancing schools across the United States.
The company still exists. Peers cannot be elected to the Commons. A few years after Cocktail Time appeared, the law was changed to allow peers who renounced their titles to become MPs - Alec Douglas-Home became Prime Minister this way in Francis Bacon , philosopher, essayist and statesman, never held the post of Chancellor of the Exchequer finance minister , although he was Lord Chancellor justice minister from , when he was dismissed for taking bribes.
A lot of the evidence Baconians cite in favour of their theory seems to hinge on implausible word-cyphers, and the arcana of kabbala and rosicrucianism. This eminent brain specialist first appeared in The Inimitable Jeeves. A dance, similar to the foxtrot but with more shaking about, which was mainly popular in the s. Start up the music and Come out and shimmy with me!
Just try to feel As if you've swallowed an eel; You'll find that helps a good deal!
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Shiimmy with me ]. Gustave Flaubert , French writer, famous for the exactitude of his style and his quest for the perfect word. Wodehouse often uses him to stand for painstaking literary excellence. We may have wondered about Cosmo before, but now we know that he has a moustache, we can be sure that it is not just Sir Raymond who is prejudiced against him. No Wodehouse hero ever had genuine facial hair. Then as now, small children often seem to derive curiously-spelled names from film stars, in this case evidently Ava Gardner and Lana Turner He was followed in by the present incumbent, Jack Valenti.
See The Luck of the Bodkins. The Cunard shipping line was set up by Samuel Cunard in , and remained based in Liverpool until it was bought by Trafalgar House in Their ships continued to carry the combined name until , the year of publication of Cocktail Time. Its function was primarily to act as a first line of defence against the threat of paratroop landings in Britain.
It drew its part-time members mostly from men over military age. Surprisingly enough, Wodehouse did not invent this verb. A place where one may do as one pleases.
Can the Ethiopian change his skin, or the leopard his spots? Apart from being the name of a street and a station in the City of London, Farringdon is the name of two villages Upper and Lower in Hampshire, and one in Devon. Any of these might be a source for Wodehouse. The Venetian Giacomo Girolamo Casanova had a varied and complex career which he describes in his celebrated autobiography. Unlike the heartless Don Juan, his many relationships with women seem to have been emotional as well as physical in nature.
A piquant detail is that Casanova was in Prague in and met Mozart - there is a legend that he helped to revise the libretto of Don Giovanni.
Fictitious, of course, but there are plenty of Mews streets back streets serving what used to be the stable blocks of grand houses and are now desirable residences in themselves in this part of South Kensington. Murphy reminds us that Wodehouse lived at No. The most famous historical Plunkett is probably the 17th century Irish Roman Catholic archbishop Oliver Plunkett, executed for treason in and canonised in the s.
The Dutch are noted for their frankness in criticism. At Puri in Orissa, a large image of Jagannatha is annually taken from the Lord Jagannatha Temple to the Gundicha Mandir, about 3km away, in a ceremonial procession.
It is said that, in the past, ardent believers used to throw themselves under the wheels of the cart carrying the image. A few years later, Oily would certainly have found such a small station unstaffed if not closed altogether. Foreigners use this term to refer to the way members of the University of Oxford are popularly supposed to talk or to have talked in the past.
British people, however, are more likely to use it for the regional accent of local people in Oxfordshire, i.
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The phrase is intended to evoke an image of frantic activity. Wodehouse also uses it in Money in the Bank. Once again, Wodehouse slips a limerick into the text disguised as prose - a favourite trick. Natchez, Mississippi, is the oldest European settlement on the Mississippi River, having been established by the French in This seems to be British racing slang of the s, so it is unlikely that Uncle Fred picked it up in Arizona.
And the night shall be filled with music, And the cares that infest the day Shall fold their tents like Arabs, And silently steal away. This is from Proverbs, not Ecclesiastes. As a jewel of gold in a swine's snout, so is a fair woman which is without discretion [Bible Proverbs ]. Lucrezia Borgia , daughter of Pope Alexander VI, was notorious for participation in her family's aristocratic intrigues, including a number of poison plots.
Nothing has ever been proved against her, apparently, but it makes for great stories, as Victor Hugo and Donizetti found. A celebrated comic play by Brandon Thomas, An Oxford undergraduate needs a chaperone to allow him to meet his sweetheart, Kitty. The toad beneath the harrow knows Exactly where each tooth-point goes; The butterfly upon the road Preaches contentment to that toad.
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Berry Conway in Big Money has similar trouble with his old retainer. It is often assumed to have been inspired by Sherlock Holmes, though the great detective nowhere says anything in the least resembling this phrase. McMurdo is the name of an Antarctic base. A kind of lottery in which players have to predict whether or not the results of football matches will be draws.
For a long time this sort of competition was legal in Britain when lotteries based on purely random events were not. The first pools coupons were issued in The Derby is a horserace, held on Epsom Downs each June. It was first run in , and is named after one of the organisers, the Earl of Derby. He tossed a coin for the honour with Sir Charles Bunbury. Moke is a colloquial term for a donkey or an inferior horse. Ten years later, in Do Butlers Burgle Banks?
Port is a strong red wine from Oporto in Portugal, normally drunk after dinner in British upper-class circles. In Wodehouse, it is the prerogative of butlers. Dons was for a long time British military and naval slang for the Spanish Don being the usual form of address for a Spanish gentleman.
Newbolt was one of the most popular writers of rousing imperialist poetry of the late 19th century. Unlike Kipling, the lawyer Newbolt was very much an armchair imperialist. In later life he is said to have been somewhat embarassed by the fame of his early work. Drake he's in his hammock an' a thousand miles away, Capten, art tha sleepin' there below? Yarnder lumes the Island, yarnder lie the ships, Wi' sailor lads a-dancing' heel-an'-toe, An' the shore-lights flashin', an' the night-tide dashin', He see et arl so plainly as he saw et long ago.
Drake he was a Devon man, an' ruled the Devon seas, Capten, art tha' sleepin' there below? Roving' tho' his death fell, he went wi' heart at ease, A' dreamin' arl the time o' Plymouth Hoe. Slung atween the round shot, listenin' for the drum, An' dreamin arl the time o' Plymouth Hoe. Call him on the deep sea, call him up the Sound, Call him when ye sail to meet the foe; Where the old trade's plyin' an' the old flag flyin' They shall find him ware and wakin', as they found him long ago!
Alice upsets the jury box, and he gets put back the wrong way up. One of the Tenniel drawings shows him flying out of the chimney. Medieval term for a hospital, revived as a deliberate archaism by 19th century writers. A lazar from the name Lazarus is a sick or destitute person, especially a leper. Evidently Wodehouse in his seventies had become more sympathetic to late-flowering romance. This is a favourite Woosterism too. Piccadilly runs in a straight line from Piccadilly Circus, in the heart of the West End theatre district, to Hyde Park Corner, where it turns into Knightsbridge.
The distance is m, or approximately a mile, which would call for at least reunited couples! Lady Mary Wortley Montagu is supposed to have brought back the idea of using flowers to transmit coded messages from Turkey. Nowadays, Ms Lollobrigida is chiefly active as a photgrapher and has entered politics as a supporter of various humanitarian causes. It is sometimes claimed to have come from an alphabetical collection of similar rhymes.
A peck is an English measure of volume, equal to 8 quarts. Did Peter Piper pick a peck of pickled peppers? If Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers, Where's the peck of pickled peppers Peter Piper picked?