Word: pukka
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...with it." For Morison this sums up the code of the best mariners. It is his code too. At 83, Morison still sails. He rides horseback, too, and occasionally shows up at his office in Harvard's Widener Memorial Library in his riding britches, looking more like a pukka-sahib colonel than a professor or an admiral. At present he is working on a biography of Samuel de Champlain as well as a sequel to his present volume. When his own time comes, the admiral will be able to say, as another of his favorites, John Davis, said...
...with terms like fair play and a sporting chanceis cant in Shaffer's view. It masks some bloody-minded bigotry and is no sounder a guide to the British national character than the ritualized tea ceremony is to that of the Japanese. Wyke is very pukka. Tindle is half Italian with a half-Jewish father. Wyke can be loftily amusing about this ("Some of my best friends are half-Jews"), but he can also spit with rage ("a wop, a yid, a not-one-of-me face"). This is a seething ethnic confrontation and it gives Sleuth...
...young subalterns, fresh from England, join Kipling's army in India in those late-19th century days when the officers' mess jackets and half of the map of the globe were colored a royal red. It is a very pukka sahib regiment, that of Barry England's play Conduct Unbecoming, with a code of ethics, clique loyalties, and a voracious fondness for pig-sticking and whisky. One of the subalterns, 2nd Lieut. Arthur Drake (Paul Jones), has come to the regiment with tunes of glory lilting in his head and an earnest determination to uphold the honor...