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...impressively. Her Louisa is a furious wren, an unbreakable China doll with a chin shaped like an eggshell and hard as a rock. "I just wanna be the best cook in England," she decides early and proceeds to bowl over the world that stands in her way. "What the bleedin' 'ell?" she hollers in florid Cockney when things go wrong. Pity the nobleman who tries to seduce her. "Push off," Louisa ripostes...
...seeking his vote: "He was wearing a mohair suit. There are no mohair suits around here. His face was brown as the wood over the mantel. My face is lily white because I can't go off to the Bahamas on a holiday. I chased him down the bleedin' street...
...profession," says a London primary school headmistress. "Before the war, hardly a single one would have presumed to think so far above his station." Says a London milkman: "If I'd 'ad chances wot my son 'as, I wouldn't be just a milkman, not bleedin' likely...
...latest addition to the Eton-Harrow-Rugby tradition deals with Borstal,*an equally exclusive institution reserved for young English criminals. Brendan Behan, a Borstal Old Boy, has written about his three years in Borstal tie and short, school-uniform pants ("like a bleedin' boy scout"). The second published work (1958) by an author known in the U.S. chiefly for his play, The Quare Fellow (TIME, Dec. 8), Borstal Boy is a rousing reform-school saga...
...young blood rises, Ches and Finn do their share of "kissin' and bleedin' like the Cloonies." When the light is doused on a picnicking foray into a sea cave, Ches feels the touch of a woman's hand. "The fingertips of my right hand then encountered the woman's breast. The touch was fugitive: yet how sweet it was when the fingertips were young and the touched breast, too, was young." But the girl is English and wealthy as well, and before the two fall fairly in love, her father's gamekeeper trounces Ches...