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When I hear about LOUIS AUDET, C. R. RITT, H. S. SMITH and that Chap, ROBINSON all getting married this month I wish that you would hurry up and get here because I am getting the bug, too....You asked me about some snapshots of Harvard? Well, BILL PAGE and ALBERT J. Marsh took some dandies the day of the graduation ceremonies and BILL says he got a swell action picture of me...yes, sound asleep while a Latin Speech was being delivered...all I know about that is "E PLURIBUS UNUM"...and 'I'm not sure whether...
...their glasses and say 'Cheers' in modulated tones. . ... Everybody is a 'type' of some sort: 'good type,' 'bad type' or 'good-bad type' . . . and there are innumerable other classifications: melancholy type, backward type, insistent type. ... A guy becomes a chap, and a fair number of Americans are developing the afternoon-tea habit." Observed Correspondent O'Reilly: "Americans must prepare themselves for a certain postwar shock they are going to get when the troops come home...
...looks, acts, and grovels like a local vice-president of the Cretin's Union, who models strait-jackets in his spare time. After him comes Felix Bressart, who is probably a nice fellow to his own friends, but then who wants to bother with those missing links? Bressart, lovable chap that he is, divides his time between kicking Holloway around and trying to marry his own daughter off to the local herring czar so he won't go broke, or something like that. In all this bhe is aided by a pair of sadistic old wenches, presumably his wife...
...fine crew. One chap that worked in sweetshop. One bus conductor. One building workman. Two married men that of never been...
...accept?" "No, darling, I couldn't keep you from the rope ladder. Not from the rope ladder I couldn't. I see that." It is not quite easy to believe in the Basil of the epilogue who says, "There's only one serious occupation for a chap now, that's killing Germans," good as he might well be at the job. But Waugh's tag line brings every page of the book into razor focus...