Word: poppet
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...honey love, it's no go my poppet...
Back in London, the Diaghilevian Esthete Ambrose Silk was about to publish Ivory Tower, a magazine arrogantly devoted to the arts alone and written by him alone, featuring a manifesto in the old avant-garde style of the '20s which insulted everybody and thing in sight. Poppet Green was "painting away like a mowing machine . . . bodiless heads, green horses and violet grass, seaweed, shells and funguses...
...Plum made him a second lieutenant ("There's a lot to be said for a uniform . ... best possible disguise for a man of intelligence") and said, "Catch a Fascist for me and I'll think about making you a Captain of Marines." Ambrose's magazine and Poppet's Marxed-up reflex to it furnished Basil with his Fascist. His betrayal of Ambrose is a piece of murderous satire which should at once warm and chill the hearts of hundreds of innocent, scared, suspected, non-fifth-columnists. It also helps bring the book into line...