Word: bowler
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Smarting from a series of defeats, the men of Marylebone moved to Peshawar, where they were promptly whipped again. The losers were galled, less by the score than by a series of "leg before wicket"* decisions awarded to Pakistan's star bowler by Umpire Idris Beg. Back in their rooms at Deans Hotel, the cricketers got themselves sufficiently stimulated to hire tongas (horse-drawn rickshaws) and hunt down Umpire Beg. When they found him. they politely invited him back to Deans for "a little private party." Beg refused, so the players took him anyway-according to Beg-dislocating...
...exception to Tory pattern of leadership, which is Anglican, Etonian and upper class. He lives modestly in a Belgravia apartment with his young (27) wife, his former secretary whom he married in 1951, and three-year-old daughter; dresses immaculately in Savile Row suits, sports a Foreign Office bowler with aplomb, is supremely sure of himself...
...exists. The world of 1955, distressed by its own faithlessness, may long for something more than the hard sneer of a peasant who has made good in the city. But the man had power and style, and his best stories have the indestructibility of the peasant's Sunday bowler...
...Vaudeville. When the big brains among the club members read their case histories of changed identities, Author Dennis shows himself at his best. Vinson's is a sad case. Back from the war he finds the old England swept away: "All the initials have gone from inside the bowler hats." With mystic joy he accepts the unpaid, unwanted post of Co-Warden of the Badgeries, an ancient symbolic office whose sole relic is a stuffed badger. Hardly has his new identity begun to cover him when he is killed as he falls on a pike during a symbolic parade...
Major Thompson is a retired, red-faced British officer who wears a bowler hat and barks "By Jove!" His name is, of course, Marmaduke, but Humorist Daninos, not wishing to make his countrymen die laughing, has not named the major's son Fauntleroy. The major's first wife, Ursula, was a British horsewoman with a face like a mare, feet like briefcases and that aversion to sex which most Britons have had since they became neighbors of the French. "Do as I did," Ursula's mother advises, "just close your eyes and think of England!" After Ursula...