Word: bunterisms
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...cartoon books have both gone through nine printings, and the school itself has appeared in skits in at least three musical revues. Today its bloody playing fields are as famous as Eton's, and its horrible little girls are quite as well known as Tom Brown or Billy Bunter...
...Adventures of Billy Bunter...
...very interested to read your Aug. 24 article on the Magnet and illustrations from it. I used to follow the adventures of Billy Bunter, as well as all the others you mention, for many years before I came to Canada in 1925 . . . but during the war I lost touch with such mundane matters. Although I am older than the oldest number of the Magnet, your story has brought back a desire to see for myself just what Bunter & Co. are doing...
Charles Hamilton first turned into Frank Richards in 1908, when at 37 he began publishing his Bunter stories in a halfpenny weekly called the Magnet. To his own astonishment, Bunter soon became a household word, and the entire British Empire seemed to take Greyfriars to its heart. It was a quiet, stiff-upper-lip sort of world where sex and politics were never mentioned, and no gentleman ever thought of tattling on another. Missionaries read about it in Malaya; traders took the Magnet along to Australia; soldiers snatched it up in their canteens in India. Eventually the time came when...
...immortal game" of chess in his head, learned to write at the rate of 50 words a minute. Not even his arrest in Austria as an enemy alien during World War I could keep him from his typewriter. "Military fatheads," declared Richards-Hamilton, "might come and go, but Billy Bunter went on forever...