Word: joyful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...JOY IN THE MORNING (281 pp.)-P. G. Wodehouse-Doubleday...
Readers may well feel that what's sauce for Bertram is sauce for P. G. Joy in the Morning is not only Author Wodehouse's 56th novel. It is also his first peacetime production since his somewhat woolly activities as a broadcaster from Nazi Germany brought down a hail of criticism on his clownish head...
...comeback, Author Wodehouse (now living in Paris) is not absolutely in midseason form, but perky as ever. Joy in the Morning is a chatty potboiler in the tradition of most Wodehouse works. Its setting is the familiar English hamlet of Steeple Bumpleigh; its characters include such Wodehouse fixtures as crocodile-toothed Lord Worplesdon ("he had got that way through presiding at board meetings"), twelve-year-old Hon. Edwin Worplesdon (a Boy Scout "who makes you feel that what this country wants is somebody like King Herod"), "Boko" Fittleworth ("a cross between a comedy juggler and a parrot that has been...
Strength through Joy. In Stockholm, Sweden, prison authorities out to prove the curse of drink staged a football match between the jail's chronic drunkards and its other convicts: the drunkards...
...their pilgrimage. By daybreak, they had become a solid grey mass covering the Champs Elysées and the Place de la Concorde, solemnly waiting to pay homage to the American emissary. When finally they spied his carriage, behind its glittering escort of mounted, helmeted guardsmen, a shout of joy vaulted from their silence. Men who heard it said later that the cheer did not sound human, that the (lead must been been crying in it too. Children threw roses and violets. Sobbing men hid their faces and women knelt to pray. The American in the carriage tipped his silk...