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...such times he seemed more than ever the indefatigable walker. He once told me that he was good for only a turn just out of the town. But in city clothes and with bowler hat carefully under his arm (as though he had just crossed into Brattle Street) he walked me two or three miles across the country with the steadiness of mountaineer bred to leather...
...Eliot the banker, in his bowler hat, black coat and sponge-bag (checked) trousers, was only one of several simultaneous incarnations. There was also the dreamily peripatetic Mr. Eliot who walked on the beach wearing, like Prufrock, white flannel trousers and reading Virgil or Dante. Above all, dogging the steps of the other Messrs. Eliot, was the increasingly cynical young man who wrote verse as polished and as sharp as a Guardsman's sword. He created a gallery of unforgettable characters: Mr. Apollinax, the faun-like, fragile embodiment of the dry intellect (whose "laughter tinkled among the teacups"); Apeneck...
Generation after generation with but minor variations, the drama was repeated in Oxford's pubs. Students bending the elbow in a taproom would hear a sudden whispered warning, scuttle for the back exits. The slow were overtaken by hard-breathing "bullers" (bowler-hatted, black-coated Oxford cops) who tipped their hats and inquired "Are you a member of the university, sir?" After the inevitable admission, the guilty were led to a solemn and unhurried figure standing nearby in cap & gown-a university proctor-who demanded "Name and college...
...same old boy. "Bossy" Gillis still looked as seedy as Burpee's spring catalogue, and he fitted into the gentle, museum-piece decor of old Newburyport, Mass, like a prime bull at a vegetarians' convention. But the coming of middle age, a wife and a new black bowler had smoothed some of Bossy's sharp edges...
...left, the largest belongs to his grandson Sir Richard Burbidge, Bt., who was born there and grew up to be the present managing director. Several hours a day, Sir Richard leaves his office and patrols his domain, correctly clad in striped trousers and short coat, and wearing a bowler hat to keep from being mistaken for a floorwalker...