Word: blimpishly
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...Picture. A young Home Guard officer decides to show his Blimpish superiors that the younger generation is fed up with playing old-fashioned war games. The young officer's orders are to begin the war at midnight, but he and his men start at 6 p.m., rush to London and capture the Home Guard General in a Turkish bath. The young officer looks down on the towel wrapped about Blimp's droopy paunch and says: "Well, all I can say, Sir, is that when Napoleon said an army marches on its stomach. . . ." From his full, majestic, nude height...
...Blimpish Conservative Sir William Davison attempted conciliation: "Is it desirable," he began, "that Democracy be made a laughingstock by such a frivolous attack on the Prime Minister...
Died. Evander Berry Wall, 79, New York-born Beau Brummel, last and most elegant dandy of the Gay Nineties; of uremia; in Monte Carlo. A legend in his own time, recognizable by his high spread-eagle collars, violent waistcoats, blimpish mustache, red chowchows, he moved to France in 1912, continued to fulfill his destiny by hobnobbing with royalty, haunting race tracks and salons...