Carry On, Jeeves: (Jeeves & Wooster)

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In Something Fresh, Ch 5 pt 5 (1915), James the footman is criticised for getting Above Himself after appearing in an advertisement for this same ointment. With a name Wodehouse would have been proud to invent, he was one of the most famous American composers of his day but now largely forgotten; the words are by the justly obscure Robert Cameron Rogers. The song was a huge success at the time – the extreme banality of the melody is probably the reason it is the only tune Freddiecan play. Main road heading south out of Cambridge – the continuation of Kings Parade and Trumpington Street.

I’d have preferred an undertaker; but I told him to stagger in, and he floated noiselessly through the doorway like a healing zephyr. That impressed me from the start. He just streamed in. He had a grave, sympathetic face, as if he, too, knew what it was to sup with the lads.

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Rejoice, O young man, in thy youth; and let thy heart cheer thee in the days of thy youth, and walk in the ways of thine heart, and in the sight of thine eyes: but know thou, that for all these things God will bring thee into judgment Several appeared later in rewritten form in Carry On, Jeeves (1925). "Absent Treatment", "Brother Alfred" and "Rallying Round Clarence" were included in the US version of The Man with Two Left Feet (1917). [ citation needed] Clustering Round Young Bingo" — Bingo Little's wife wants a new housemaid, Aunt Dahlia wants a new cook, and Bingo Little wants his wife's article suppressed. Bertie tries to sort everything out with help from Jeeves. A stenographer is a person who transcribes speech into shorthand. Shorthand (the Pittman system was introduced in 1837 and the Gregg system in 1888, although other systems have been in existence since ancient times) is a difficult skill to master; the point of the dictaphone was to allow the expensive stenographer to be replaced by a less-skilled person who could type directly from the recording (what we would now call an audio-typist). Thus Wodehouse is using the term in a less precise sense than the usual one.

The association of the word “Bohemian” with impecunious young Parisian writers and artists was popularised by Henri Murger’s novel Scènes de la vie de Bohème (1847–9) and Puccini’s opera based on it (1896). ruthlessness, tyranny, masked by a polite and courteous manner. Ascribed to Napoleon, as in Thomas Carlyle’s “Model Prisons” (1850) in Latter-day Pamphlets. Then the king went to his palace, and passed the night fasting: neither were instruments of music brought before him: and his sleep went from him.Leave it to Jeeves" was Bertie's motto, be the question one of a colour of a tie, the style of a hat, the cut of a coat. Jeeves was always right. There was no one like him to placate rich uncles or indignant mammas. He said just the right thing at just the right moment. When this story first appeared in 1919, hemlines were still down at the ankle; by 1925 they had reached the knee. The Middlesex County Lunatic Asylum, later Friern Hospital, opened in 1851 in the hamlet of Friern Barnet, in what is now the north London district of New Southgate. ca. 240km) This distance from Cambridge suggests that Miss Sipperley lives somewhere in the North Riding.

I believe all the stories included in Carry on, Jeeves! have been filmed by the B.B.C. for their excellent T.V. show ‘Jeeves and Wooster’, a series that is also responsible for fixing in my imagination the faces of Stephen Fry and Hugh Laurie as the title characters. A theatrical performance given in the afternoon. (French: ‘morning’– actors get up later than the rest of us.) much as I admire P G. Wodehouse, I know he recycles characters and plots frequently, his charm relying more on style than originality. In 1911, Fairbanks played the title role in a stage adaptation of A Gentleman of Leisure, adapted by John Stapleton and Wodehouse from Wodehouse’s novel (also known as The Intrusion of Jimmy). Beginning in 1921, the Herbert Jenkins reissues of A Gentleman of Leisure were dedicated to Fairbanks. Arcade game, patented in 1909 by J. D. Estes of Philadelphia, and very popular in the 20s and 30s. It involved getting a wooden ball through one of a series of hoops at the end of a lane like a skittle alley.Possibly an echo of Pope’s Essay on Man, where this construction appears a number of times, e.g. “Created half to rise, and half to fall” and “Taught half by reason, half by mere decay.”

A proprietary hot sauce made with chili peppers. Tabasco ® brand products are produced by McIlhenny Company, founded in 1868 at Avery Island, Louisiana. Bertie is implying that Uncle Willoughby was hot stuff in his younger days. The 16th of the present month. A formula often used in official reports and business correspondence, it sounds comically pompous if used in speech. Also the title of a 1922 film starring Cullen Landis as a young man who leaves home and sweetheart and becomes involved with a cynical chorus girl. This is part of an ongoing effort by the members of the Blandings Yahoo! Groupto document references, allusions, quotations, etc. in the works of P. G. Wodehouse. Notable about this episode is the fierce aversion for marriage displayed by Bertie, who describes it in terms of being caught in the jaws of a hungry, slavering tigress who drags you unwillingly in her den to serve you as the main course at dinner.

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However, Elizabeth, on her way to the beach, spots the child and approaches. She offers him sweets, and the child shouts, "Kiss Fweddie!". Freddie comes out and, not knowing Bertie's scheme, fails to say anything. The child continues to shout, until Bertie, defeated, tells Elizabeth she must give the child the sweets. Bertie confesses the plan, and Elizabeth laughs. Bertie sidles away and meets Jeeves, who is just returning from a walk. He tells Jeeves that the plan is over, but is startled when he sees a crowd gathering in front of the cottage. On the porch, Freddie and Elizabeth are embracing. Jeeves observes that things have ended well after all. A hilarious collection about the antics of Bertie Wooster, who is saved by the clever manipulations of Jeeves, his man-servant. The English philologist Eugene Aram (1704–59) was a self-taught expert on the Celtic languages. Before he could complete his Anglo-Celtic dictionary, he was tried and executed for the murder of his friend Daniel Clarke. As well as Thomas Hood’s poem, which Bertie attempts to quote, there is a novel by Bulwer Lytton on the subject. Hood’s poem was effectively sabotaged by Lewis Carroll’s parody “The Walrus and the Carpenter.” All four original versions of this story (in US and UK magazines, and in US and UK first editions of Carry On, Jeeves!) have “Mrs. Spencer” here. Reprint editions such as Penguin seem to prefer the spelling Spenser. Regarding source 2, we are forced to say that since Bertie needs to explain why Anstruther was at Dahlia’s, he refers to Anstruther’s connection to Dahlia, leaving himself out of the picture, so as not to confuse things.