Word: pukka
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Japanese forces striking at Alaska and Canada or crashing through Russia's Siberian rear. But the thought that throws him into a cold intellectual sweat is the vision of the Nazi and Japanese tank commanders shaking hands on the dusty plains of an India in which all pukka sahibs will have checked the white man's burden forever at a pukka concentration camp...
Back in London last week from a visit to Russia's front as chief of the British Military Mission was Lieut. General Frank Noel Mason MacFarlane, a pukka sahib, the archetype of British sporting soldiery, a man who had stuck pigs in India, raced autos in the Alps, shot grouse in Scotland, worn the kilt in Budapest, and in between times been military attache in Berlin (1937-39) and Army Commander at Gibraltar (1940-41). He thought the Reds were a bit of all right. His report...
...British made Colonel Sweeney a reserve captain in R. A. F. to make it all pukka. They segregated the reckless Americans, rather than salt them into the conservative R. A. F. Among them are barnstormers, crop-dusters, stunt fliers, sportsmen. Youngest is Gregory ("Gus") Daymond, 19, of California, who used to fly an ice-cream king around South America. Oldest is Paul Joseph Haaren, 48, also of California, a movie flier. Most celebrated Eagle is Colonel Sweeney's nephew, wavy-haired Robert ("Bob") Sweeney, who won the British amateur golf championship in 1937 and lately squired Barbara Hutton Haugwitz...
Lewis sets himself up as a middle-aged Major Archibald Corcoran, lecture-touring the U. S. as "The Pukka Sahib." A visit in Nineveh, N. Y. furnishes him with several chapters on the newly decaying, depression-struck, provincial "Aristocracy." The thin red Anglo-Saxon line, by his observation, is wearing thinner very fast; for Lewis the U. S. has no more to do with the little island from which he came than it has with Timbuctoo. The one foreigner to whom the U. S. citizen is unaccustomed is the Englishman...