Word: psmith
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...public reading, he became so absorbed in his own story that he quite forgot his audience. "By Jove, that's good! I'd no idea," he muttered. "Devilish funny." Millions agreed with him. Bertrand Russell could hardly wait for the next Bertie Wooster novel. Bix Beiderbecke quoted Psmith by the page. Evelyn Waugh, scarcely noted for charitable overstatement, called his colleague "preeminent and undisputed...
...what characters to cross them! Bertie and Jeeves; bumbling Lord Emsworth and the Empress of Blandings, his prize pig; the elegant sybarite Psmith, who believes that early rising leads to insanity; and that boozy American Biffen, who inspired one of the master's famous similes: "He quivered like a suet pudding in a high wind." Whatever it is, the Wodehouse formula is clearly simple-so simple that the secret will probably die with its creator...
...have no option but to respond to the mere word Jeeves with a mental picture of a whole society; while to those who lap him up, a whole corner of mental life is occupied by such characters as Lord Emsworth, Lord ("Uncle Fred") Ickenham, Bertie Wooster, Mr. Mulliner, Psmith and that great Sheba of sows, "Empress of Blandings...
...PSmith, c 8 4 20Prior 0 0 0Rockwell, if 8 9 25Covey 0 2 2Goldsmith 0 0 0Gabler, rg 2 0 4Hickey, 1g 2 0 4Cohodes 0 0 0Murphy, rf 3 5 11Stiles 1 0 2Totals...
HARVARD (67) G F PSmith, rf 7 8 22Rockwell, lf 8 3 19Prior, c 3 1 7Gabler 2 1 5Crosby, rg 1 1 3Murphy 1 3 5Hickey, lg 1 0 2Cohodes 0 0 0Covey 1 2 4Downey 0 0 0Totals...