Word: pukka
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...Counted the days till the return from the hills of the pukka mem-sahibs-the blithe daughters of British officialdom...
...Delhi nothing except muted headlines indicated that India was approaching a rendezvous with history. Heat-drugged, half-nude Indians still slept in the shade on sun-baked pavements or sprawled dozing on the grassy lawns of Government buildings and homes of pukka sahibs. From miles away bright British flags could be seen snapping in the north wind above the copper dome of the viceregal palace, as gayly and unconcernedly as if the British Government were not facing the most serious threat to its power since the Mutiny...
...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...