Word: fagend
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Thus, amid new comforts, Britain's M.P.s, tanned and bright-eyed from a two-month recess, last week rolled up their sleeves for the fagend of the 1946 parliamentary session...
...loyalty of the rural Englishman like that of a dog to his master; on the fungoid passivity of the English poor; on the drowning weight of the past, the atrophy of the sense of the future; on the "dead-end look" in the faces of the young; on the fagend of the industrial revolution, a people physically rated, even by their own experts, as a third-class nation; on moral apathy and deafness to change of the middle and upper classes; on the leaders of England ("The profoundest wish of English statesmen of our time was to elude the responsibility...
...such demand that toy and sporting goods stores could hardly supply them fast enough. Because interruptions do not spoil it and because of its speculative possibilities, club-car members took it up; fellow-members mocked at first, then also learned. Now, as club-cars rattle home in the 'fagend of early summer afternoons, the dice click on the board with the raised sides, the draughtsmen move from point to point, doubles are exchanged, and money...
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