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...manages to deliver a great deal of shrewd literary and social satire. The reader who follows the career of the Figet (or Fidget) family from the days of 15th Century Master Humfrey Figet down to the gayer days of the lovely Shelmerdine Parsley-Ffidgett (who was painted in the buff by Modigliani and drowned bathing at Cap d'Antibes one midnight) will know pretty well all there is to know about the average Whig county family...
...BUFF-TINTED DUEBILL...
...propinquity and persistence eventually triumphed over zoology. Snow White and Ramona produced two litters of cubs, four of which lived. At first they were white like their father, later turned brown like their mother. As they grew into big bears, their color faded to a compromise buff...
...chief signs of spring are the plans. Spring brings plans for new courses, plans which are scrawled on buff study cards in February to mature in blue examination books in June. Spring brings plans for summer jobs, plans which are recorded in letters starting: "I am interested in obtaining . . ." Spring brings plans for commencement, plans which wind up in the neat hand-lettered Old English of a diploma, or the equally neat typescript of a letter from a dean. Spring brings plans for the drive to Wellesley along Route 16, plans which are never written down at all. Spring...
...butchering and then operating a gas plant, occupations which he found more suitable to his inclination to improve his position financially and socially. During his seven years as a "chummy," Lawrence had many surprising adventures as he scraped his way up one flue and down another, usually in the buff. As an old man he was especially fond of telling newspaper reporters how he frightened one maiden lady by emerging from the fireplace near her bed with no protective covering to cover his nakedness. She screamed and he scrambled back up the flue...