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...months, the realities of war took place in the air. Fantasy possessed the ground. Historian Fleming acknowledges that Evelyn Waugh's fictional persiflage, Put Out More Flags, is an excellent guide to the spirit of the period. The Home Guard went into action, some appearing on horseback with bowler hats and shotguns. Others (including Author Fleming) were organized into guerrilla bands with underground hideouts like "the Lost Boys' subterranean home in the second act of Peter Pan", with the object of harassing an invading army. The General Staff puckishly referred to this as "scallywagging." Smart shops advertised that...
Three members of the Association Council were also elected: Dr. John P. Bowler, Dr. George Crile, Jr. and Dr. Arthur T. Hertig. Each member serves a three year term...
...delicate balance of power is drafted by a British police officer. Because of Milty's intervention there follow intrigue, blackmail and suicide. Careers are wrecked. Things will never be the same again at the club. But Mr. Wong will appear in the next Honors List, and Milty, though "bowler-hatted" out of his country's service, will carry on as a shady auto salesman in Beirut...
...without money, but you will make your living from women, and it is by them that you will succeed." His family laughed, moved to Paris and tried to train him to be a diplomat. Instead, Christian plunged into the arty life of Paris of the '20s. Velvet-collared, bowler-hatted and rich, Christian hobnobbed with advanced musicians like Poulenc and Satie, artists like Jean Cocteau, Christian Berard and Salvador Dali, opened an art gallery with his father's financial backing...
...Bowlers & Rozzers. Novelist Manko-witz evidently sets up these two old human ruins as symbols of man's condition on earth, with well-meaning officials as their natural enemies. The officials are the book's runts and spivs and riffraff-the ones who have fared best under the Welfare State. Old Cock pegs them down (to quote the most printable of his memorable vocabulary) as bowler-hatted, bean-eyed, lousy, bootlicking Picklewaters. The old man is quite a social thinker. After one brush with authority-represented by an arrogant doorman-he reflects: "If we have to take...