Word: basil
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Waugh's hero ghost is ratlike, inexorably likable Basil Seal, the flower of British adventurousness degraded to magenta.* War draws him and his fellow ghosts into one of those ornamental tourniquet-and-candy- box knots which only Waugh knows how to tie. But Waugh's dross and gloss should deceive nobody for long; he has become one of the most deadly serious moralists of his generation. Every one of his novels had its masked importance. History helps make Put Out More Flags his most important book...
...whittling off the heads of domestic animals; and little Marlene, who liked to finish off the dogs' supper plates and who promptly restored all she ate all over the floors. There they stood, "one leering, one lowering, and one drooling," a frightful triptych, the terror of the countryside. Basil found inspired use for them. Assuming power as billeting officer, he visited them upon another British quintessence: the middleaged, music-loving, rock-gardening, genteel, post-Pre-Raphaelite people who made up the Garden Party Only list in sister Barbara's address book. On these Basil cleaned...
When the crowd got its first glimpse of Alsab, pounding past the stands, he was in next-to-last place. In the backstretch, he was still next-to-last. Coming into the home turn, Jockey Basil James gave the Sab the whip. Like the Alsab of old, he began to sweep around the field-past the Orphan, past Apache, past Shut Out, gaining with every stride of his short legs. At the wire, Alsab was a full length in front of Requested and Sun Again. His time: 1 min. 57 sec., a new record for the 52-year-old Preakness...
...CALLING-Helen McCloy- Morrow ($2). Unidentified telephone messages tell the chorus girl fiancée of a well-born young Marylander to stay away from the family mansion or else. A murder follows and Basil Willing delves into abnormal psychology to bring up the slayer. Scientifically sound, deductively excellent...
Died. "Commodore" Basil Muse Hatfield, 70, Van Winkle-bearded "First Admiral of the Trinity, Master of the Marshes, First Lord of the Swamps"; in Liberty, Tex. He was an unsuccessful candidate for U.S. Senator in 1941. His platform: a five-ocean navy...